Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Bible

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Proverb, Turkish

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Thomson, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Peter McWilliams

17.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

18.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

19.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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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 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

22.

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

25.

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

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

Bible

30.

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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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

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.