Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Unesco

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

Allen, James

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Milton, John

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Bible

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Thomson, James

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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

Lennon, John

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