Peace Quotes to Inspire a Better World and Life


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In a busy, chaotic world, finding peace is a true gift. Peace quotes help ground us, offering wisdom and comfort in stressful times. They remind us of the calm that exists within and around us. Whether you need a moment of calm, some inspiration, or a gentle reminder of peace’s importance, these quotes can guide you. Explore these peace quotes to find serenity and harmony in your life.

Peace begins with a smile.  Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.  Matthew Donnelly

Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.

Matthew Donnelly

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 daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

President John F. Kennedy

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is always beautiful.

Walt Whitman

Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong.

Karen Salmansohn

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Albert Camus

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lenon

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Laini Taylor

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Kurt Vonnegut

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Buddha

There is peace even in the storm.

Vincent van Gogh

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Language is the key to the heart of people.

Ahmed Deedat

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.

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

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

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

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, The Art of Power

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.

William Shakespeare

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

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 will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alfred Nobel

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.  Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Edwin Louis Cole

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

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