Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

A Course In Miracles

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Nicols, Peter

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

Milton, John

22.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

24.

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

25.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

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.

27.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

28.

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

Buddha

30.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Washington, George

34.

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

35.

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

Steiner, George

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Hubbard, Kin

38.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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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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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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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

45.

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

Bible

46.

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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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.

48.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.