Motivational Quotes

Peace

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

10.

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

Wiesel, Elie

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

12.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

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

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

Amis, Martin

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Steiner, George

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

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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

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

Milton, John

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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Allen, James

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

34.

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

Dayan, Moshe

35.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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