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

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Steiner, George

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Lennon, John

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, James

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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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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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