Motivational Quotes

Peace

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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 peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Milton, John

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Washington, George

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.