Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

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

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

Bible

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

'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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 not God's gift to his creatures. It 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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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

32.

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

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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