75 Quotes About Peace to Inspire a Better World

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Quotes About Peace: In our hectic life, sometimes we feel like we are getting away from peace. It becomes a part of our daily routine to leave for work in the morning, work all day and come home in the evening. “And we get very little time for ourselves.“

But we need to understand the importance of peace in our life. And it is also necessary for us that instead of leading a stressful life, we should take time for ourselves along with work and give importance to inner peace.

Here are 75 best ‘Peace quotes‘ that will help you understand the importance of peace in life.

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Quotes About Peace

1. “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

2. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” —Norman Vincent Peale

3. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai Lama

4. “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “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

6. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” —Jimi Hendrix

7. “If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”– Desmond Tutu

8. “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” —Ronald Reagan

9. “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

10. “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

Peace Quotes

11. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” —Desmond Tutu

12. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” —Maha Ghosananda

13. “Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” —John Lewis

14. “Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay … calm.” —Yves Behar

15. “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

16. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” —John F. Kennedy

17. “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

18. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

19. “ Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” —Albert Einstein

20. “Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” —Estella Eliot

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21. “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

22. “I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”– Helen Keller

23. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”– Jimi Hendrix

24. “Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” —Baba Hari Das

Short peace quotes

25. “When things change inside you, things change around you.” —Unknown

26. “Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.” —Alanis Morissette

27. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero

28. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” — Sylvia Plath

29. “Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong.” —Karen Salmansohn

30. “Peace begins with a smile.” —Mother Teresa

31. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” —Mahatma Gandhi

32. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” ―Indira Gandhi

33. “The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”– Arthur Powell Davies

34. “Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.”– Matthew Donnelly

35. “The world is quiet here.”– Lemony Snicket

36. “Peace is always beautiful.”– Walt Whitman

37. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!”– Anne Frank

38. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”– Albert Camus

39. “Rest and be thankful.”– William Wordsworth

40. “True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”– Jane Addams

Inner peace quotes

41. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”– Amelia Earhart

42. “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

43. “Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.”– Thomas a Kempis

44. “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”– Albert Schweitzer

45. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”– Aristotle

46. “Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.”– John Lewis

47. “Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong.”– Karen Salmansohn

48. “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

49. “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”– Augustine of Hippo

50. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”– Albert Einstein

World peace quotes

51. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.

52. “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

53. “Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.”

54. “It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”

55. “We maintain peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.”

56. “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

57. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

58. “do what is right not what is easy.”

59. “Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”- George Bernard Shaw

60. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.– Jimi Hendrix

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61. “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Mahatma Gandhi

62. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.– Nelson Mandela

63. “Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.” – Elie Wiesel

64. “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

65. “Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.”– Thomas a Kempis

66. “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” – Ugo Betti

67. “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

68. “The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” – Silvia Cartwright

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69. “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

70. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon

71. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham

72. 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

73. “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

74. “Don’t let people pull you into their storm. pull them into your peace.”

75. “ 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

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