Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thant, U.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Dyke, Henry Van

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Muste, A. J.

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Thomson, James

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

27.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dayan, Moshe

33.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Milton, John

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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

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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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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.