Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Lennon, John

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Amis, Martin

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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

11.

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

Wiesel, Elie

12.

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

Washington, George

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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

18.

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

Washington, George

20.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

21.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

22.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Hardie, James Keir

27.

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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

34.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

40.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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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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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.