Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lennon, John

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Steiner, George

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

Carlos Santana

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Washington, George

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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'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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Bible

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.