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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Bible

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dayan, Moshe

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

12.

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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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 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

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

20.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

27.

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

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

34.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

35.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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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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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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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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

40.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

44.

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

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.