Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

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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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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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