Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Muste, A. J.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steiner, George

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.

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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

11.

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

12.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

13.

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

14.

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

16.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

17.

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

Serling, Rod

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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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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

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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

22.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

26.

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

27.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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

30.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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.

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

37.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

40.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Muste, A. J.

44.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

45.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov