Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Peace

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nicols, Peter

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

20.

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

Thomas a Kempis

21.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

24.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

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

26.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

35.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

36.

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.

37.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

38.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

39.

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

Washington, George

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

42.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

48.

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

Allen, James

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger