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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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.

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

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

Bible

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

10.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

11.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

14.

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

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

16.

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.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

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

Bible

23.

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.

24.

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

Carlos Santana

25.

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

Thant, U.

26.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

27.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

28.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

29.

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.

30.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

36.

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

Lennon, John

37.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

38.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

A Course In Miracles

40.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

44.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

45.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt