Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

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

Bible

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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.

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

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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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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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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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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'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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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

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

Proverb

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

Allen, James

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Washington, George

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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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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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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal