Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Peace

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

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Lennon, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Buddha

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dayan, Moshe

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Washington, George

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Allen, James

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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Milton, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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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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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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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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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Anton Chekhov