Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Thomson, James

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lennon, John

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

22.

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

Proverb

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

30.

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

Bible

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Bible

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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