Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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.

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

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Buddha

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Lennon, John

10.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

11.

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

Peter McWilliams

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

16.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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

18.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

19.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

30.

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

Washington, George

31.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Bible

34.

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

Milton, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anton Chekhov

39.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

40.

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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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