Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

Carlos Santana

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Peter McWilliams

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Thomson, James

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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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

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

Dayan, Moshe