Hear us out - the word peace doesn’t only mean ceasing a conflict. Yes, it is the primary concept of the word; however, peace within is also something that we all should strive and work for. For only by living at peace with yourself can you seed that peace in those around you! To reach that inner peace, you, of course, have to start by accepting yourself with all your flaws and loving them nevertheless, but this is a long process often requiring side assistance. One of the ways this assistance might materialize is in wise words spoken by famous people known for their intelligence and honorable deeds. Thus, we’ve rounded up all such peace quotes into one article and now are sharing them with you, hoping that they will move you, inspire you, and give you something to look forward to.
From Aristotle to Mahatma Gandhi, and from John Lennon to Nelson Mandela - all these people had some beautiful quotes to share with us. They all speak about the importance of peace - both outside and inside - and they’ve put their thoughts into such fine words that you might find yourself in awe reading some of these peace quotes. Words do have the power to motivate and inspire, and these eye-opening quotes will definitely move you to begin your search for unity.
So, get ready to immerse yourself into the world of truth and beauty by reading the moving quotes we’ve collected in this article. They are, as per usual, just a slight bit down below. Once you are there, give the best quotes your vote and share this article with anyone to whom it would be of interest.
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“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” - Marvin Gaye
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
“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.” - Saint Francis de Sales
"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 is not something you wish for. It is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.” - Robert Fulghum
“We will know peace the day we truly know ourselves.” - Maxime Lagacé
Self-understanding is key. If we have peace with ourselves, we'll have peace with others.
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” - Gerald G. Jampolsky
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.” - John Lennon
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.” - Gandhi
"Making peace with your own backstory, and accepting that not all of it is good, is vital." - Fearne Cotton
"When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it." - Udai Yadla
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.” - Benjamin Franklin
"Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace." - Dalai Lama
"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war." - John Holmes
“More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” - John F. Kennedy
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” - Edith Wharton
“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.
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” - Albert Schweitzer
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” - Nelson Mandela
“Many people think excitement is happiness… But when you are excited, you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
“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
“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
“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.” - Randy Armstrong
“Peace is not the highest goal in life. It is the most fundamental requirement.” - Sadhguru
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” - Melody Beattie
“If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” - Linda Evans
“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” - Thomas á Kempis
“Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” - Estella Eliot
“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
“Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order." - Arthur Henderson
“I think that if we would stop trying to impress each other, we might be able to love each other.” - Joyce Meyer
"Those feelings of completeness, peace, no more striving, no fear, are mental states." - Gelong Thubten
"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might." - Andreas Hartinger
"Give up being right, instead radiate peace, harmony, love and laughter from your heart.” - Deepak Chopra
"If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children." - Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” - Albert Einstein
“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
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” - Marianne Williamson
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“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
“Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’” - Haile Selassie
“Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” - Ronald Reagan
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” - Desmond Tutu
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” - Helen Keller
“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 is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.” - Rae Carson
“Of all our dreams today, there is none more important—or so hard to realize—than that of peace in the world.” - Lester B. Pearson
“World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power.” - Sri Chinmoy
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” - Malcolm X
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.” - Christian D. Larson
“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
“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.” - Winston Churchill
“If you want to end the war, then instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.” - Malala Yousafzai
“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
“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
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” - Wayne W. Dyer
“Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.” - Thomas Paine
“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
“There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” - Ugo Betti
“Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” - Peter Deunov
“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we are each free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world.” - Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
“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
“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.
“You never change anything by fighting the existing. To change something, build a new model, and make the existing obsolete!” - Buckminster Fuller
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation.” - Nelson Mandela
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Victor Frankl
“Ego says, ‘Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place’.” - Marianne Williamson
"Never, ‘for the sake of peace and quiet’, deny your own experience or convictions." - Dag Hammarskjold
"Think of the peace of mind you’ll have by just simply telling the truth." - Sandra Forbes
"I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children." - Suzy Kassem
"As long as we insist on hanging on to our hate, the world will not know peace." - Laurence Overmire
“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.” - Jane Addams
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“Be a peacemaker in everyday life. Display peace in everything you do. Be peace. Live in peace.”
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” - Roy T. Bennett
“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
“Choose. The single clenched fist lifted and ready, or the open hand, held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.” - Carl Sandburg
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” - Eckhart Tolle
“If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.” - Alan Mulally
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” - Peace Pilgrim
“The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.”- Golda Meir
“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” - John Lewis
“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
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” - William Shakespeare
“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
“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
"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on." - Criss Jami
"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
“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
“I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war… But we have no more urgent task.” - John F. Kennedy
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively - a never-ending process.” - Johan Galtung
“I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.” - Mother Teresa
"If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world." - Dalai Lama
"One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history." - Peace Pilgrim
"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
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.” - Peace Pilgrim
“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.” - David O. McKay
"Peace is not something that can be 'achieved' but rather something that one must become." - Beau Norton
"Peace-making is a healing process and it begins with me, but it does not end there.” - Gene Knudsen Hoffman
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness” - Robert Muller
“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” - Henry Fielding
