Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

- Nicols, Peter

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

17.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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'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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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 is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Francis of Assisi, St.