Motivational Quotes

Peace

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Thomas a Kempis

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

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

Lennon, John

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Bible

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

33.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.