Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Lennon, John

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

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Smiles, Samuel

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

12.

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

13.

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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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

15.

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

16.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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.

20.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

21.

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

22.

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

29.

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

30.

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

Thomas a Kempis

31.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

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

34.

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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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

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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

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

Bible

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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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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

43.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

44.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

49.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Eisenberg, Larry