Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Milton, John

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Lennon, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Bible

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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.