Motivational Quotes

Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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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 best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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 not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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

Washington, George

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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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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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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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