Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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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

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

Amis, Martin

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

19.

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

20.

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

Lennon, John

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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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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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

28.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

31.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

34.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

35.

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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

37.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

45.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

46.

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

Washington, George

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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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Truman, Harry S