Peace Quotes
Achieving peace is a continuous journey. Though it might seem out of reach, putting our problems and struggles into perspective helps us get closer to reaching tranquility. Finding inner peace is a major life accomplishment, but when we are constantly pulled down by our own burdens and the afflictions of the world, the dream of a peaceful life becomes more distant.
When you look deep within yourself, do you see peace or internal conflict? Let these peace quotes remind you daily that the world needs more peace and the journey starts from within.
60 Peace Quotes & Sayings
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“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
“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 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
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” – John F. Kennedy
“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
“Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” – Estella Eliot
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.” – Elie Wiesel
“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating — these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.” – Wayne Dyer
“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X
“The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” – Silvia Cartwright
“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
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” – Baba Hari Das
“People always make war when they say they love peace.” – D.H. Lawrence
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” – St Francis of Assisi
“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
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” – George Bernard Shaw
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.” – Albert Camus
“There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.” – Bruce Lee
“When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” – Maha Ghosananda
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” – Black Elk
“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
“Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.” – Thomas a Kempis
“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.
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
“There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’” – Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“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.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“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
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
“Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” – Albert Schweitzer
“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
“They call it “peace of mind” but maybe it should be called “peace from mind”.” – Navil Ravikant
“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.” – Lin Yutang
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
“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
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” – Baruch Spinoza
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
“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
“There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” – Ugo Betti
“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.” – Marianne Williamson
“Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present.” – Paulo Coelho
“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
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle
“There is peace even in the storm.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“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
“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
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” – Buddha
“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
“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
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“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