Motivational Quotes

Peace

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Peace

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Steiner, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Washington, George

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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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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

O'Connor, Basil

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.