Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

Milton, John

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Dayan, Moshe

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

14.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

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

Amis, Martin

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

25.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wiesel, Elie

28.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bible

40.

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

Bible

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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

44.

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

Thomson, James

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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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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Francis of Assisi, St.