Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

Lennon, John

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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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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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 one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Thomson, James

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Amis, Martin

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb