Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Proverb

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

Steiner, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

10.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Muste, A. J.

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Hardie, James Keir

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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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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