Motivational Quotes

Peace

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Allen, James

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Lennon, John

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Truman, Harry S

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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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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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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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