To various individuals, peace implies different things. These peace quotations can assist you in determining what peace means to you.
Peace used to mean a time when there were no wars, conflict, or the fear of violence. Today, the term “peace” is used to describe a state of tranquility, quiet, or calm in which there is no animosity.
When we talk about inner calm, we’re referring to our ability to achieve a state of calm that can alter our perceptions of the world and how we interact with others.
Being mentally and spiritually at ease implies that you are fully aware of who you are and what you are capable of and that you do not spend time or energy on things that are unnecessary or useless to you.
We’ve gathered the best peace quotes in one place so that you can discover the ideal one to inspire you, whether you’re looking for inner peace or reacting to current events.
120+ Quotes About Peace To Determine its Real Meaning
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.___George Bernard Shaw
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.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. – Mahatma Gandhi
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.― Martin Luther King Jr
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
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.___Nelson Mandela
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
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. – Elie Wiesel
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.― Mahatma Gandhi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.___St Francis of Assisi
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.___Jimi Hendrix
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
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.___Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.___Baruch Spinoza
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
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
There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.___Bruce Lee
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.___Dale Carnegie
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
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. – Laini Taylor
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
Forgiveness equals inner peace – more peaceful people equals more world peace.___Richard Branson
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.___Ronald Reagan
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
Stress is a choice. So is inner peace. – Lewis Howes
When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.___Maha Ghosananda
They call it “peace of mind” but maybe it should be called “peace from mind”.__Navil Ravikant
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
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh
There is peace even in the storm. – Vincent Van Gogh
Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.___Marianne Williamson
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.__Aristotle
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.___John Lewis
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.__Dalai Lama
Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present. – Paulo Coelho
There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’___Mahatma Gandhi
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.___Robert J. Sawyer
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.___Lin Yutang
We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.___Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay calm.___Yves Behar
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
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.___Thich Nhat Hanh
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.___Buddha
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.__Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Peace is liberty in tranquility. – Marcus Tulius Cicero
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 there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.____Theodore Roosevelt
The only peace is being out of earshot. – Mason Cooley
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.___Muhammad Ali
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
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
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.__Norman Vincent Peale
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.___Maria Montessori
Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from. – C. Joybell C.
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
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.___Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.___Desmond Tutu
Peace is its own reward.___Mahatma Gandhi
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. – Amelia Earhart
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.___Jane Addams
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
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
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. – John F. Kennedy
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.___Thomas Paine
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.___Thomas Jefferson
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.___Benjamin Franklin
Be a peacemaker in everyday life. Display peace in everything you do. Be peace. Live in peace.___Buddhist Proverb
We make war that we may live in peace.– Aristotle
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations… entangling alliances with none.___Thomas Jefferson
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.___Buddha
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.___Mother Teresa
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.___Peter McWilliams
Peace begins when expectation ends. – Sri Chinmoy
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
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.___Helen Keller
A people free to choose will always choose peace.– Ronald Reagan
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.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.___St. Francis of Assisi
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.___Robert A. Heinlein
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.___Katie Byron
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
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. – Henry Miller
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.___Mikhail Gorbachev
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
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.___John Holmes
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.__Thomas Pynchon
Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.___Rae Carson
Peace is always beautiful. – Walt Whitman
You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.___Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
People always make war when they say they love peace.___Charlie Chaplin
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.___Thomas Fuller
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.__Dorothy Thompson
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. – Ugo Betti
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
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
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.___Malcolm X
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
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
People always make war when they say they love peace. – D.H. Lawrence
Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.___Estella Eliot
Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.___Thomas a Kempis
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. – Silvia Cartwright
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
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.___John F. Kennedy
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
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.___Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.___Eckhart Tolle
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. – John Lennon
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.___Albert Einstein
Peace is the only battle worth waging.___Albert Camus
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.___Albert Schweitzer
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 is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.___Robert Fulghum
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. – Michael Cunningham
Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.___Thich Nhat Hanh
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.___George Carlin
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Siddhārtha Gautama
Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.___Baba Hari Das