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 an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Wiesel, Elie

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Allen, James

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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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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.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Washington, George

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

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