Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Eisenberg, Larry

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Bible

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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.

12.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

13.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

14.

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.

15.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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

18.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

O'Connor, Basil

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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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

Steiner, George

32.

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

Lennon, John

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

34.

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

Anton Chekhov

35.

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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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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

43.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Bible

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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.