Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Washington, George

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

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

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

Serling, Rod

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

A Course In Miracles

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Thomson, James

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Allen, James

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

Truman, Harry S

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

34.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is our gift to each other.