Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lennon, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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.

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

Steiner, George

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

10.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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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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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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.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

30.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

31.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

37.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

42.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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

44.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Allen, James

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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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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.