Motivational Quotes

Peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

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.

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Allen, James

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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

Steiner, George

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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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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Amis, Martin

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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.