Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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.

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lennon, John

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

Thomson, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Steiner, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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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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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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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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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

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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'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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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.

Bible

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Kempis, Thomas