Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hubbard, Kin

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Moore, Marianne

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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

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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 peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

A Course In Miracles

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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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