Motivational Quotes

Peace

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Buddha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Thomson, James

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Lennon, John

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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