Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

- Mehta, C. C.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Truman, Harry S

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Washington, George

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Allen, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

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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.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Thant, U.

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

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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thomson, James

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

Muste, A. J.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

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