Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

- Mckinley, William

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Steiner, George

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Allen, James

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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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?