Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Peace

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kennedy, John F.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Anton Chekhov

18.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Amis, Martin

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

28.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Serling, Rod

31.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

34.

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

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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.