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

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Serling, Rod

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

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

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

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

Steiner, George

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

Dayan, Moshe

11.

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

12.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

13.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

17.

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

O'Connor, Basil

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Nicols, Peter

22.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

23.

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

Wiesel, Elie

25.

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

26.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

27.

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

Thomson, James

28.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

30.

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

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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.

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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.

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

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

Washington, George

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

Unesco

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.