Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Carlos Santana

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

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

Lennon, John

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.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bible

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Washington, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Truman, Harry S

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Thomson, James

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

A Course In Miracles

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John