Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Peace

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bible

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

Allen, James

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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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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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Steiner, George

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Washington, George

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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

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Thomson, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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