Motivational Quotes

Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, Turkish

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

Bible

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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

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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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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

14.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

15.

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

Moore, Marianne

16.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Smiles, Samuel

21.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Washington, George

23.

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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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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 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

30.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Thomas a Kempis

43.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

44.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.