Motivational Quotes

Peace

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Peace

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A Course In Miracles

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Truman, Harry S

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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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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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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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.