Motivational Quotes

Peace

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Thomas a Kempis

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Anton Chekhov

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hardie, James Keir

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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.