Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Wiesel, Elie

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lennon, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Steiner, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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.