Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Eisenberg, Larry

Best Quotes about Peace

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Muste, A. J.

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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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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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

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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