Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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.

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

Bible

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

12.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

13.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

14.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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

Hardie, James Keir

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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 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

25.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

30.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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.

37.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Serling, Rod

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Thomson, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, James

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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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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 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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George