Motivational Quotes

Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

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

Lennon, John

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Unesco

11.

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

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

13.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

14.

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

Thomas a Kempis

15.

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 peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

17.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

18.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

19.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

25.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Wiesel, Elie

28.

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

Bible

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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 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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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

32.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

34.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

37.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Buddha

41.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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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 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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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.

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thant, U.

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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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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