Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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.

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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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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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

O'Connor, Basil

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 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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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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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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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

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

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney