Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Truman, Harry S

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bible

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

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Milton, John

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lennon, John

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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