Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Thomson, James

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Steiner, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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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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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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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 produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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 peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh