70+ Inspirational Peace Quotes to Inspire Calm, Balance, and Inner Harmony
Peace is more than the absence of conflict; it is the presence of harmony, understanding, and mutual respect. It nurtures growth, fosters collaboration, and allows humanity to thrive in its fullest potential. True peace begins within, as individuals cultivate compassion, patience, and a commitment to coexistence. On a larger scale, peace unites diverse communities and nations, reminding us of our shared humanity. It is the foundation for building a future filled with hope, justice, and prosperity.
- “If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
- “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
- “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
- “We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.”
- “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
- “The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
- “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
- “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”
- “It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
- “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
- “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
- “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
- “Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”
- “On all the peaks lies peace.”
- “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
- “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.”
- “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
- “Peace begins with a smile.”
- “We make war that we may live in peace.”
- “Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
- “If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
- “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
- “Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
- “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
- “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
- “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
- “Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”
- “The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”
- “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
- “Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
- “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.”
- “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
- “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
- “I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”
- “Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
- “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
- “Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
- “If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
- “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
- “One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.”
- “God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.”
- “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
- “Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”
- “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
- “I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
- “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
- “Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.”
- “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
- “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
- “A conqueror is always a lover of peace.”
- “To secure peace is to prepare for war.”
- “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
- “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”
- “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”
- “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”
- “The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.”
- “I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.”
- “War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”
- “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
- “People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.”
- “Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.”
- “I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”
- “Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.”
- “Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”
- “There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.”
- “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
- “If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?”
- “Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”
- “To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
- “My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.”
- “My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.”
- “Peace is its own reward.”
- “If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
- “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
- “Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.”