Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about 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 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

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Serling, Rod

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Bible

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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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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Muste, A. J.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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