Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Carlos Santana

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.

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

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

Thomson, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Washington, George

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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]

Bible

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Washington, George

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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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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

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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