Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Eisenberg, Larry

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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.

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

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Anton Chekhov

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Allen, James

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

Bible

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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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

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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

Buddha

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lennon, John

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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