Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thomson, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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

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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Washington, George

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Steiner, George

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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