Motivational Quotes

Peace

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Peace

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Peter McWilliams

12.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

William Shakespeare

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

Washington, George

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lennon, John

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

34.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

35.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

36.

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.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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 peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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 a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.