Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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.

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

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

11.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

12.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Thomas a Kempis

16.

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

Steiner, George

17.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

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

Peter McWilliams

19.

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

Muste, A. J.

20.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

21.

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.

22.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

32.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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 we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

O'Connor, Basil

40.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

43.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

46.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Allen, James

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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