Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

A Course In Miracles

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Thomas a Kempis

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Proverb, Turkish

24.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

31.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lennon, John

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thomson, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.