Motivational Quotes

Peace

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

- Eisenberg, Larry

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Buddha

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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 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.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

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