125 Peace Quotes and Sayings

In this chaotic and busy world, everyone is in search of a sense of calm, understanding, and well…peace. Here are best Peace Quotes to help you find calmness and peace of mind.

Peace Quotes

1.  “Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.” – Elie Wiesel

2. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X

3. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” – Dalai Lama

4.  “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” – Robert J. Sawyer

5. “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” – St Francis of Assisi
6. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
7. “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” – St. Francis de Sales
8. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye
9. “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” – Ugo Betti
10. “When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.” – Roy T. Bennett

Quotes about Peace

11. “World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.” – Dalai Lama
12. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
13. “Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.” – Robert Fulghum
14. “I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live” – Godfrey Reggio
15. “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. “You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.” – Stacy London
17. “Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.” – Ezra Taft Benson
18. “The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” – Silvia Cartwright
19. “Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.” – Martin Luther
20. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” – John F. Kennedy

Peace of Mind Quotes

21. “Be grateful in life. Being grateful for what you have in life is a great way to develop peace of mind” – Invajy
22. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham
23. “Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
24. “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin
25. “Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” – Roy T. Bennett
26. “Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.” – Bernie Siegel
27. “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
28. “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Mahatma Gandhi
30. “Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.” – Hafsat Abiola

Peace Short Quotes

31. “Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.” – Thomas Pynchon
32. “What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.” – Mikhail Gorbachev
33. “Master the art of acceptance and live a peaceful Life.” – Invajy
34. “Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.” – John Holmes
35. “Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.” – Maria Schell
36. “Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman
37. “People always make war when they say they love peace.” – Charlie Chaplin
38. “It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” – Thomas Fuller
39. “If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” – Henry Miller
40. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle

Inner Peace Quotes

41. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon
42. “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
44. “Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
45. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.” – Albert Camus
46. “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” – Albert Schweitzer
47. “Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.” – Wayne Dyer
48. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Siddhārtha Gautama
49. “There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.” – Bruce Lee
50. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Dale Carnegie

Best Peace Quotes

51. “Stress is a choice. So is inner peace.” – Lewis Howes
52. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” – Maha Ghosananda
53. “They call it “peace of mind” but maybe it should be called “peace from mind”.” – Navil Ravikant
54. “It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
55. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
56. “Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.” – Lin Yutang
57. “We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
58. “The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.” – Tenzin Palmo
59. “Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace…Peace will be the last word of history.” – Pope John Paul II
60. “Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” – Thomas Jefferson

Famous Peace Quotes

61. “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” – Thomas Paine
62. “He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.” – Benjamin Franklin
63. “There is peace even in the storm.” – Vincent Van Gogh
64. “Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.” – Marianne Williamson
65. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle
66. “Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” – John Lewis
67. “Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present.” – Paulo Coelho
68. “There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’” – Mahatma Gandhi
69. “Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay calm.” – Yves Behar
70. “You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” – J. Donald Walters

Peace Quotes

71.  “We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.” – Pope Francis
72. “The goal of life is peace of mind not money, as fish finds peace in water not in honey” – Invajy
73. “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
74. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” – Marcus Tulius Cicero
75. “Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.” – Rae Carson
76. “The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.” – Benjamin Franklin
77. “The only peace is being out of earshot.” – Mason Cooley
78. “We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.” – Robert E. Lee
79. “If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.” – Lao Tzu
80. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Popular Peace Quotes

81. “Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.” – Dalai Lama
82. “Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.” – Maria Montessori
83. “Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.” – Laini Taylor
84. “No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” – Louise Hay
85. “Peace is a meditation achieved through still mind.” – Invajy
86. “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
87. “Forgiveness equals inner peace – more peaceful people equals more world peace.” – Richard Branson
88. “Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.” – Epictetus
89. “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” – Buddha
90. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Peace Quotes

91. “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
92. “Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” – George Bernard Shaw
93. “The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” – C. Joybell C.
94. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
95. “If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” – John Lennon
96. “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
97. “Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.” – C. Joybell C.
98. “Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” – Thomas Merton
99. “I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.” – Kurt Vonnegut
100. “Peace is its own reward.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Inspiring Peace Quotes

101. “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” – John F. Kennedy
102. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
103. “True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.” – Jane Addams
104. “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” – Baruch Spinoza
105. “We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.” – Thomas Merton
106. “People always make war when they say they love peace.” – D.H. Lawrence
107. “Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” – Estella Eliot
108. “Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.” – Thomas a Kempis
109. “I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” – Helen Keller
110. “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations… entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson

Peace Quotes

111. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” – Buddha
112. “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” – Mother Teresa
113. “If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.” – Peter McWilliams
114. “Peace begins when expectation ends.” – Sri Chinmoy
115. “A people free to choose will always choose peace.” – Ronald Reagan
116. “It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
117. “Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.” – Pema Chödrön
118. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – St. Francis of Assisi
119. “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” – Robert A. Heinlein
120. “Be a peacemaker in everyday life. Display peace in everything you do. Be peace. Live in peace.” – Buddhist Proverb

Quotes on Peace

121. “We make war that we may live in peace.” – Aristotle
122. “Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.” – Mark Twain
123. “Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.” – Katie Byron
124. “The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” – Carlos Santana
125. “Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.” – Dorothy Thompson