85 Peace quotes that inspire unity and calmness. Here are the best quotes on peace to enlighten you on how to achieve peace in every form, peace quotes to help you in finding inner peace for a more meaningful life. Peacefulness means a lack of conflict and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups, the absence of hostility and violence, a concept of societal friendship. May these peace quotes from famous people made you realize that true peace is achievable. Share quotes about peace with your friends, family, and loved ones to promote world peace to everyone.
1. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
2. 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 live as one. - John Lennon
3. 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
4. If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it. - Hiro Mashima
5. Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. - Bob Marley
6. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. - Mahatma Gandhi
7. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Siddhārtha Gautama
8. 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
9. You have peace, when you make it with yourself. - Mitch Albom
10. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. - Amit Ray
11. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon
12. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. - Milan Kundera
13. Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. - Augustine of Hippo
14. 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
15. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? - David Baldacci
16. Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. - Laini Taylor
17. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is. - Jennifer Niven
18. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is... at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away... - Virginia Woolf
19. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. - Aristotle
20. Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace. - Roy T. Bennett
21. 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.
22. If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace. - Leo Tolstoy
23. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
24. 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
25. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thich Nhat Hanh
27. There is no way to peace, there is only peace. - Mahatma Gandhi
28. Peace is the only battle worth waging. - Albert Camus
29. To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
30. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. - Eckhart Tolle
31. The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. - Thich Nhat Hanh
32. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein
33. We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
34. Your inner peace is your outer foundation - Allan Rufus
35. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy
36. Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh
37. In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace. - Anonymous
38. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann
39. The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. - Thomas Kempis
40. Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh
41. Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be opposed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world. - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
42. Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. - David Mitchell
43. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
44. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. - Jane Addams
45. Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. - Wayne W. Dyer
46. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. - Dorothy Thompson
47. Peace begins when expectation ends. - Sri Chinmoy
48. 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
49. 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
50. If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. - Marvin Gaye
51. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. - Michael Cunningham
52. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. - Jack Kornfield
53. Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when you wake up. - Thomas Pynchon
54. Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter. - Mahogany SilverRain
55. Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from. - C. JoyBell C.
56. If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's OK, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't let anything disturb your peace, and carry on. - Germany Kent
57. True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict. - N.K. Jemisin
58. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill. - Rae Carson
59. The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state. - Amit Ray
60. Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there. - Byron Katie
61. Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances. - Estella Eliot
62. Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating – these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. - Wayne W. Dyer
63. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. - John F. Kennedy
64. Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division. - John Lewis
65. 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
66. 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 L. Hay
67. 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
68. You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
69. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. - Ronald Reagan
70. Those who tried to break you are expecting you to be in fight mode. Conquer them with your peace. - Thema Davis
71. 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
72. To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. - Robert Muller
73. You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness. - Helen Schucman
74. If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. - Frank Sinatra
75. If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Desmond Tutu
76. When you see the world through serene eyes, you generate peace wherever you go. - Jerry Dorsman
77. The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. The greatest quest in life has always been the search for peace. - Richard Daly
79. Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom. - Dalai Lama
80. Will there be peace in our lifetime is the question asked by many. In my own view, this is highly improbable. Peace can only be achieved when every person loves both himself or herself and everyone else unconditionally. - Keith Giemre
81. Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. - Yehudi Menuhin
82. Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind. - Daisaku Ikeda
83. When it comes to experiencing peace, we can't cram it in at the last minute; we need to build a foundation for it by giving God's Word a central place in our lives. - Brian Hardin
84. When we place God at the center of our lives, we find unexplainable joy, balance and peace. - Brittany Ann
85. Peace is costly but it is worth the expense. - African proverb
1. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
2. 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 live as one. - John Lennon
3. 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
4. If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it. - Hiro Mashima
5. Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. - Bob Marley
6. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. - Mahatma Gandhi
7. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Siddhārtha Gautama
8. 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
9. You have peace, when you make it with yourself. - Mitch Albom
10. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. - Amit Ray
11. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon
12. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. - Milan Kundera
13. Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. - Augustine of Hippo
14. 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
15. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? - David Baldacci
16. Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. - Laini Taylor
17. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is. - Jennifer Niven
18. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is... at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away... - Virginia Woolf
19. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. - Aristotle
20. Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace. - Roy T. Bennett
21. 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.
22. If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace. - Leo Tolstoy
23. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
24. 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
25. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thich Nhat Hanh
27. There is no way to peace, there is only peace. - Mahatma Gandhi
28. Peace is the only battle worth waging. - Albert Camus
29. To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
30. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. - Eckhart Tolle
31. The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. - Thich Nhat Hanh
32. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein
33. We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
34. Your inner peace is your outer foundation - Allan Rufus
35. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy
36. Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh
37. In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace. - Anonymous
38. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann
39. The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. - Thomas Kempis
40. Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh
41. Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be opposed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world. - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
42. Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. - David Mitchell
43. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
44. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. - Jane Addams
45. Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. - Wayne W. Dyer
46. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. - Dorothy Thompson
47. Peace begins when expectation ends. - Sri Chinmoy
48. 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
49. 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
50. If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. - Marvin Gaye
51. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. - Michael Cunningham
52. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. - Jack Kornfield
53. Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when you wake up. - Thomas Pynchon
54. Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter. - Mahogany SilverRain
55. Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from. - C. JoyBell C.
56. If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's OK, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't let anything disturb your peace, and carry on. - Germany Kent
57. True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict. - N.K. Jemisin
58. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill. - Rae Carson
59. The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state. - Amit Ray
60. Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there. - Byron Katie
61. Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances. - Estella Eliot
62. Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating – these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. - Wayne W. Dyer
63. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. - John F. Kennedy
64. Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division. - John Lewis
65. 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
66. 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 L. Hay
67. 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
68. You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
69. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. - Ronald Reagan
70. Those who tried to break you are expecting you to be in fight mode. Conquer them with your peace. - Thema Davis
71. 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
72. To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. - Robert Muller
73. You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness. - Helen Schucman
74. If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. - Frank Sinatra
75. If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Desmond Tutu
76. When you see the world through serene eyes, you generate peace wherever you go. - Jerry Dorsman
77. The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. The greatest quest in life has always been the search for peace. - Richard Daly
79. Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom. - Dalai Lama
80. Will there be peace in our lifetime is the question asked by many. In my own view, this is highly improbable. Peace can only be achieved when every person loves both himself or herself and everyone else unconditionally. - Keith Giemre
81. Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. - Yehudi Menuhin
82. Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind. - Daisaku Ikeda
83. When it comes to experiencing peace, we can't cram it in at the last minute; we need to build a foundation for it by giving God's Word a central place in our lives. - Brian Hardin
84. When we place God at the center of our lives, we find unexplainable joy, balance and peace. - Brittany Ann
85. Peace is costly but it is worth the expense. - African proverb