Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Thomas a Kempis

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

A Course In Miracles

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

10.

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

11.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

12.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

14.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Bible

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

19.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

20.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

21.

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

O'Connor, Basil

22.

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

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

25.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

28.

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

29.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

30.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Lennon, John

37.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

38.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Lennon, John

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.