Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Allen, James

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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Carlos Santana

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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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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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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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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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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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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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von