Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Proverb

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Buddha

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

Steiner, George

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

10.

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

11.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Allen, James

16.

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

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

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

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

Wiesel, Elie

24.

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

Lennon, John

25.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

26.

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

Hardie, James Keir

27.

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

Nicols, Peter

28.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

32.

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

33.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

34.

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.

35.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

36.

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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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

38.

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

39.

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

Thomas a Kempis

40.

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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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

42.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Dayan, Moshe

45.

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