Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Peter McWilliams

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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