Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Allen, James

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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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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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Dayan, Moshe

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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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.