Historical Peace Quotes

"Peace begins with a smile." — Mother Teresa
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself." — Nelson Mandela
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." — Indira Gandhi
"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." — A.J. Muste
"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war." — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." — Thomas à Kempis
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." — John Lennon
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." — Amelia Earhart

Political and Diplomatic Peace Quotes

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." — Ronald Reagan
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Peace is our gift to each other." — Elie Wiesel
"A people free to choose will always choose peace." — Ronald Reagan
"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
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"The purpose of all war is peace." — Saint Augustine
"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness." — Mahatma Gandhi
"We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?" — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Philosophical and Theological Peace Quotes

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." — Albert Einstein
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. It is a pursuit that must go on throughout our lives and the lives of our descendants." — Dag Hammarskjöld
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." — Buddha
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace." — Buddha
"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
"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." — Dalai Lama
"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm." — Author Unknown
"Grant that we may be at peace with ourselves and with our fellow men." — Thomas Aquinas
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict." — Dorothy Thompson

Literary Peace Quotes

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one." — John Lennon
"Peace is always beautiful." — Walt Whitman
"Peace, like charity, begins at home." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." — Rumi
"Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts." — William Shakespeare
"If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." — Desmond Tutu
"Let us love the world to peace." — Eileen Elias Freeman
"True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice." — Jane Addams
"Peace is liberty in tranquility." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." — Deepak Chopra

Activist and Humanitarian Peace Quotes

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix
"If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." — Desmond Tutu
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Peace is the only battle worth waging." — Albert Camus
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." — Marianne Williamson
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." — Mahatma Gandhi
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." — Mother Teresa
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace." — Mahatma Gandhi

Cultural and Social Peace Quotes

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." — Mother Teresa
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion." — Nelson Mandela
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." — Thomas Jefferson
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." — Nelson Mandela
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." — Virginia Woolf
"Peace is every step." — Thich Nhat Hanh
"Women who pursue justice, peace, and equality rarely have the leisure to do this kind of book research." — Susan Brownmiller
"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.'" — A.J. Muste
"Every thought, every action, every word will somehow, someway, shape us all." — Anonymous

Personal and Inner Peace Quotes

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." — Dalai Lama
"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions." — Pema Chödrön
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." — Buddha
"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence." — Norman Vincent Peale
"Peace begins with a smile." — Mother Teresa
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." — Peace Pilgrim
"Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what's going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for." — Barry Neil Kaufman
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." — Marcus Aurelius

Educational and Inspirational Peace Quotes

"Peace is the only battle worth waging." — Albert Camus
"Peace begins with a smile." — Mother Teresa
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." — Nelson Mandela
"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
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children." — Mahatma Gandhi
"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions." — Thich Nhat Hanh
"Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins." — Barack Obama
"Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony." — Laini Taylor
"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." — Confucius
"Let us teach our children the value of empathy and peace, so they grow up to be compassionate individuals who can shape a better world." — Shannon L. Alder

Environmental and Global Peace Quotes

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." — Margaret Mead
"There can be no peace without sustainable development and no sustainable development without peace." — Wangari Maathai
"The earth is what we all have in common." — Wendell Berry
"He that plants trees loves others besides himself." — Thomas Fuller
"The environment, after all, is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share." — Lady Bird Johnson
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken." — Leo Tolstoy
"If the environment is polluted, it is difficult to attain inner peace. We need a clean environment for collective and individual peace." — Dalai Lama
"The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally." — Dalai Lama
"Protecting and restoring our oceans and forests requires a shift towards peace and collaboration." — Sylvia Earle
"When we recognize the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection: love is born." — Thich Nhat Hanh