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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Proverb

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

10.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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 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

13.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

14.

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.

15.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

17.

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

Muste, A. J.

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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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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

21.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

37.

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

Anton Chekhov

38.

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

O'Connor, Basil

39.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

40.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

42.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

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

44.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

45.

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

46.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia