Motivational Quotes

Peace

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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.

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.

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

15.

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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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Milton, John

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Washington, George

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

41.

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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nicols, Peter