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

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Buddha

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Amis, Martin

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

Serling, Rod

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Thomson, James

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon