Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Bible

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

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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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.

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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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Peter McWilliams

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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 a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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