Motivational Quotes

Peace

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Nicols, Peter

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.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

11.

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 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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Smiles, Samuel

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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 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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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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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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