Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenberg, Larry

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Bible

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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

13.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

14.

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

Bible

15.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

16.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

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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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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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 peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Allen, James

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

28.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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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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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Amis, Martin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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