Peace Quotes & Thoughts

Inner Peace Quotes

1. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." – Buddha
2. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." – Dalai Lama
4. "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
5. "Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions." – Pema Chödrön
6. "Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave." – Alanis Morissette
7. "If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations." – Lao Tzu
8. "When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world." – Maha Ghosananda
9. "Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us." – Bernie Siegel
10. "Peace is liberty in tranquility." – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace and Understanding Quotes

1. "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." – Albert Einstein
2. "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." – Nelson Mandela
3. "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." – Ronald Reagan
6. "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." – Robert Muller
7. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." – Jimi Hendrix
8. "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
9. "Peace is its own reward." – Mahatma Gandhi
10. "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." – Dalai Lama

World Peace Quotes

1. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." – Mother Teresa
2. "World peace begins with inner peace." – Dalai Lama
3. "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." – Mahatma Gandhi
4. "Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." – Martin Luther King Jr.
6. "There never was a good war or a bad peace." – Benjamin Franklin
7. "The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace." – Mahatma Gandhi
8. "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
9. "The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone." – Pope John XXIII
10. "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace and Love Quotes

1. "Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us." – Bernie Siegel
2. "Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God." – Anonymous
3. "When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." – Peace Pilgrim
4. "There is no path to peace. Peace is the path." – Mahatma Gandhi
5. "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time." – Lyndon B. Johnson
6. "Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace." – Buddha
7. "Peace is not merely a goal that we must pursue, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." – Martin Luther King Jr.
8. "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." – Larry Eisenberg
9. "If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." – Desmond Tutu
10. "Peace is always beautiful." – Walt Whitman

Peaceful Mindset Quotes

1. "Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." – Anonymous
2. "The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful." – Buddha
3. "Each one has to find his or her peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances." – Mahatma Gandhi
4. "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." – Albert Einstein
5. "Peace begins with a smile." – Mother Teresa
6. "There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.'" – Mahatma Gandhi
7. "Peace is every step." – Thich Nhat Hanh
8. "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. "He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees." – Benjamin Franklin
10. "Peace is the only battle worth waging." – Albert Camus

Practicing Peace Quotes

1. "The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions." – Thich Nhat Hanh
2. "Peace comes from having true knowledge." – Anonymous
3. "Peace is not a result inside us from something outside of us; it is a direct and deliberate act of our will." – Joyce Meyer
4. "Cultivate within yourself the spirit of renewal and awakening." – Buddha
5. "We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion." – Mother Teresa
6. "The simpler you become, the more peaceful you become." – Anonymous
7. "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." – Maria Montessori
8. "The mind at peace is a light that lights the whole world into peace." – Bruce S. Wright
9. "Learn to calmly accept what is given and peacefully decide how you will move forward and thrive." – Anonymous
10. "Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right." – Anonymous

Finding Peace in Nature Quotes

1. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." – Aristotle
4. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." – Albert Einstein
5. "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." – Lao Tzu
6. "To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles." – Mary Davis
7. "Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods." – John Muir
8. "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." – Gary Snyder
9. "The earth has music for those who listen." – William Shakespeare
10. "The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you. You can feel it." – Ted Trueblood

Historical Peace Quotes

1. "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." – Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson
2. "Peace is our gift to each other." – Elie Wiesel
3. "Peace is so much more than the absence of violence. It is the relentless pursuit of love." – Anonymous
4. "The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war." – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
5. "There is no way to peace; peace is the way." – A.J. Muste
6. "Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement." – Oscar Arias
7. "Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous." – George Bernard Shaw
8. "To reach peace, teach peace." – Pope John Paul II
9. "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." – Ronald Reagan
10. "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice." – Thomas Merton

Famous Peace Advocate Quotes

1. "Give peace a chance." – John Lennon
2. "If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace." – John Russell
3. "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace." – Nelson Mandela
4. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." – Mother Teresa
5. "Peace is the first thing the angels sang." – John Keble
6. "I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war." – Cicero
7. "Let us pursue every possible avenue of peace before resorting to war." – Carl Levin
8. "You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." – Malcolm X
9. "Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime." – Victor Hugo
10. "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust." – Albert Einstein