Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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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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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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

24.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

26.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb

30.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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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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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

33.

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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

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

Amis, Martin

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

45.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie