Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wiesel, Elie

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

10.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

11.

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.

12.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Washington, George

14.

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

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

Serling, Rod

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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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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

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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

28.

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

Thomson, James

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

Bible

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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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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

38.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

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

Lennon, John

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

Proverb

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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 made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.