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

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

Allen, James

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Washington, George

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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

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

18.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von