Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Steiner, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Thomson, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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]

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