Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Buddha

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Proverb

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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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.

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

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George