Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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

18.

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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bible

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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.

34.

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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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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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 pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Unesco

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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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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 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

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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