Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Lennon, John

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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.

19.

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

20.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

21.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

22.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Proverb

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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

28.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

29.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

Carlos Santana

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

32.

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

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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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

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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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kempis, Thomas

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George