Motivational Quotes

Peace

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Milton, John

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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

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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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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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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