Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Buddha

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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.

12.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

15.

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

16.

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

Peter McWilliams

17.

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

Unesco

18.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

19.

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

20.

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

Truman, Harry S

21.

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

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Wiesel, Elie

24.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

25.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

26.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

27.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

28.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

30.

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

31.

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

Bible

32.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

33.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

34.

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

Thomas a Kempis

35.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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

40.

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

Muste, A. J.

41.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

42.

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

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

A Course In Miracles

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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If you want peace work for justice.