Motivational Quotes

Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Pilgrim, 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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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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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 never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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

Steiner, George

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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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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