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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Washington, George

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Muste, A. J.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Buddha

19.

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.

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

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Allen, James

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.