Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Serling, Rod

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Muste, A. J.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bible

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Nicols, Peter

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Lennon, John

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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

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