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

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

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

Steiner, George

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smiles, Samuel

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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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

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

Amis, Martin

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb

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

32.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Muste, A. J.

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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lennon, John

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

Lennon, John

46.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Nicols, Peter