Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

- Sadat, Anwar

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lennon, John

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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