Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thomas a Kempis

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Thomas a Kempis

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Allen, James

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Peter McWilliams

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Hubbard, Kin