Motivational Quotes

Peace

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Kempis, Thomas

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

11.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

17.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

20.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

21.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

23.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

25.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

26.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

30.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

46.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

47.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

50.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera