Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace dividend is peace.

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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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.

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Allen, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

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

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

22.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

30.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Washington, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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.

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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