Motivational Quotes

Peace

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

- Brittain, Vera

Best Quotes about Peace

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

15.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Allen, James

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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 is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Lennon, John

32.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

33.

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

Smiles, Samuel

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

42.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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