Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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 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.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thant, U.

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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Turkish

18.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Washington, George

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lennon, John

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre