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

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

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Buddha

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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.

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Anton Chekhov

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

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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.