Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Wiesel, Elie

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

A Course In Miracles

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Thomas a Kempis

11.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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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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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

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Milton, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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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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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.

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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

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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

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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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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.