Motivational Quotes

Peace

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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.

11.

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

12.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

13.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

16.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

22.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

23.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

24.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

25.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

26.

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

27.

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

Carlos Santana

28.

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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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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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