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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Steiner, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Truman, Harry S

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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