Motivational Quotes

Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

William Shakespeare

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

Amis, Martin

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Steiner, George

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

11.

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

Peter McWilliams

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

Lennon, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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 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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Washington, George

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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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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

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

43.

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

Bible

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

Serling, Rod

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.