Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bible

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Smiles, Samuel

10.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

11.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

12.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

13.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

17.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

22.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Dayan, Moshe

24.

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

25.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Allen, James

31.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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

Carlos Santana

33.

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

38.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

39.

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

40.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

41.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

42.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

43.

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

O'Connor, Basil

44.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

46.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.