Motivational Quotes

Peace

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Thomson, James

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Washington, George

11.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

13.

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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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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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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

William Shakespeare

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nicols, Peter

48.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.