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

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

Lennon, John

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

Proverb

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

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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.

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

Lennon, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

13.

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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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

15.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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

Kettering, Charles F.

30.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

32.

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

Proverb, Turkish

33.

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

34.

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.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Washington, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal