Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Anton Chekhov

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

William Shakespeare

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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