Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is produced by war.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Bible

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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.

Steiner, George

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

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lennon, John

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Bible

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Washington, George