Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Peace

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Milton, John

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

Hardie, James Keir

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Muste, A. J.

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

A Course In Miracles

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