Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Washington, George

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

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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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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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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

26.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

43.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

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

Lennon, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Anton Chekhov

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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