Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- O'Connor, Basil

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Serling, Rod

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Bible

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Amis, Martin

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Peter McWilliams

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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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