Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Allen, James

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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

Muste, A. J.

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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

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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.

25.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

27.

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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Washington, George

36.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

37.

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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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Steiner, George

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

Anton Chekhov

44.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

46.

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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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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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Nicols, Peter