Motivational Quotes

Peace

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

33.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Proverb

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Hubbard, Kin

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Hubbard, Kin