Peacefulness means a lack of conflict and freedom from fear between individuals or groups. It's the absence of hostility and violence, a state of tranquility. Peace also leads to a happy and satisfied life. May these quotes about peace give you insights that will help you realize peace is achievable by understanding each other.
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.” – Buddha
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. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray
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10. “First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” – Thomas a Kempis
11. “If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.” – Confucius
12. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” – Maha Ghosananda
13. “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” – Thomas Paine
14. “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
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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. “In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.” – Masashi Kishimoto
19. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle
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20. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
21. “Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” – Roy T. Bennett
22. “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
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
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25. “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
26. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
27. “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
28. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
29. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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30. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.” – Albert Camus
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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. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” – Amit Ray
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 a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
37. “Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” – Sallust
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. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” – Peter Deunov
41. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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. “Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” – George Bernard Shaw
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.” – Virginia Woolf
52. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” – Jack Kornfield
53. “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” – Henry Fielding
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 okay, 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, and 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
86. “Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman
87. “Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” – Steve Jobs
88. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
89. “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” – Ugo Betti
90. “Language is the key to the heart of people.” – Ahmed Deedat
91. “Sometimes, you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay calm.” – Yves Behar
92. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi
93. “Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.” – Thomas Paine
94. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
95. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
96. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius
97. “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
98. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” – Buddha
99. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
100. “Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires.” – The Ancient Sage
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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.” – Buddha
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. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray
11. “If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.” – Confucius
12. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” – Maha Ghosananda
13. “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” – Thomas Paine
14. “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
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. “In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.” – Masashi Kishimoto
19. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle
21. “Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” – Roy T. Bennett
22. “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
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
26. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
27. “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
28. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
29. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
More Quotes Regarding Peace
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. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” – Amit Ray
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 a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
37. “Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” – Sallust
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. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” – Peter Deunov
41. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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. “Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” – George Bernard Shaw
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.” – Virginia Woolf
52. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” – Jack Kornfield
53. “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” – Henry Fielding
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 okay, 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, and 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
86. “Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman
87. “Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” – Steve Jobs
88. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
89. “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” – Ugo Betti
90. “Language is the key to the heart of people.” – Ahmed Deedat
91. “Sometimes, you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay calm.” – Yves Behar
92. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi
93. “Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.” – Thomas Paine
94. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
95. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
96. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius
97. “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
98. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” – Buddha
99. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
100. “Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires.” – The Ancient Sage
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