Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Washington, George

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

Washington, George

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Serling, Rod

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Allen, James

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Kennedy, John F.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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 peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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