Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Allen, James

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Anton Chekhov

12.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lennon, John

14.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

15.

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

Steiner, George

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

18.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

19.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

25.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Bible

30.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Washington, George

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Thant, U.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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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 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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kennedy, John F.