Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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

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

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Thomson, James

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De