936 private quotes tagged peace

“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart

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“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” — Woody Allen

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“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” — Johnny Carson

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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” — Napoleon Hill

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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” — Victor Hugo

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“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama

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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Dalai Lama

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“Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” — Winston Churchill

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“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.” — Bryan Ferry

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“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” — Deepak Chopra

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“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” — Thomas Fuller

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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.” — John Lennon

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“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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