Motivational Quotes

Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Best Quotes about Peace

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kempis, Thomas

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

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

11.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

12.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

14.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Thant, U.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Anton Chekhov

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

25.

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

26.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Wiesel, Elie

37.

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

Smiles, Samuel

38.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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