Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Unesco

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Washington, George

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

Proverb

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Thomas a Kempis

11.

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

Wiesel, Elie

12.

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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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 is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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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 practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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 has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Serling, Rod

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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.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Lennon, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

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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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

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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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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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