Motivational Quotes

Peace

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Steiner, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Lennon, John

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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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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

25.

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

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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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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

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

32.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.