Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

10.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

11.

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.

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Steiner, George

18.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

19.

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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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

29.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amis, Martin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lennon, John

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

47.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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