Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

11.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

13.

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.

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

17.

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

O'Connor, Basil

18.

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

Thomas a Kempis

19.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

20.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

21.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

22.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

25.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

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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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

34.

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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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

36.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

37.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

38.

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

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anton Chekhov

42.

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

Buddha

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

47.

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

Washington, George

48.

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

49.

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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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.