Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

10.

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

Peter McWilliams

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

12.

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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Thomson, James

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Lennon, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

O'Connor, Basil

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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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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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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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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