Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Bible

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nicols, Peter

10.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

32.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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.

39.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Muste, A. J.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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