Motivational Quotes

Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

- Hecht, Ben

Best Quotes about Peace

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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.

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Unesco

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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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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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.

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

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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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.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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