Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

- Mckinley, William

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Truman, Harry S

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Smiles, Samuel

13.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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 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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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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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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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

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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 peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Thomson, James

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

39.

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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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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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.