Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Proverb, Indian

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Anton Chekhov

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

12.

'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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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

16.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Lennon, John

18.

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

19.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Smiles, Samuel

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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.

31.

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

A Course In Miracles

32.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

33.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Dayan, Moshe

35.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Allen, James

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

40.

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

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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.

42.

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

43.

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

Thomson, James

44.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

45.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

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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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.

49.

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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

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