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

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Peter McWilliams

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Bible

10.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

13.

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

14.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

16.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

19.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

21.

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.

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

28.

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

29.

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

Serling, Rod

30.

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

A Course In Miracles

31.

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

32.

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

Hardie, James Keir

33.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

36.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

37.

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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

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

Thomson, James

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

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

O'Connor, Basil

44.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

45.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

47.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

48.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

49.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

50.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian