Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Peace

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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.

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.

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Milton, John

15.

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

16.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

17.

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

O'Connor, Basil

18.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

Wiesel, Elie

20.

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

Peter McWilliams

21.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

25.

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

26.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

27.

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

Nicols, Peter

28.

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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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

30.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

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

33.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

34.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

37.

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

38.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

39.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

40.

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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

42.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

43.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

44.

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

Thant, U.

45.

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

46.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

48.

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

49.

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

Serling, Rod

50.

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.