Motivational Quotes

Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

- Hecht, Ben

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Serling, Rod

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Dyke, Henry Van

39.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

40.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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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.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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