Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

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

Thomas a Kempis

11.

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

12.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Allen, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

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 the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

40.

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

Bible

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

42.

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

Lennon, John

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

Unesco

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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

50.

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