Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Peace

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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

Kempis, Thomas

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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.

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

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Smiles, Samuel

14.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Washington, George

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Muste, A. J.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre