Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Lennon, John

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.

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

17.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

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

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

22.

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.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

24.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

25.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nicols, Peter

28.

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 the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

30.

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

31.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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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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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

38.

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

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

Steiner, George

40.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Washington, George