Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Smiles, Samuel

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Anton Chekhov

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steiner, George

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

22.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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 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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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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.

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.