Motivational Quotes

Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hardie, James Keir

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

10.

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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

13.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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

25.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

26.

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

Thomas a Kempis

27.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

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

Proverb, Turkish

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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.