Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Serling, Rod

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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'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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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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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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lennon, John

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

Washington, George

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe