Top 580 Peace Quotes

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
Richard Quest
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
Benito Juarez
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
We in the West think of peace as society’s default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live.
Bertha von Suttner
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the sc

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Wayne Dyer
Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
William McKinley
As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria – but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
T. B. Joshua
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana
It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest.
Michael Scheuer
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Daniel Barenboim
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
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
Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
Koena Mitra
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
Sheikh Hasina
‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
George W. Bush
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Joe Biden
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
ร“scar Arias
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
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.
Mother Teresa
Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.
Monica Johnson
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Desmond Tutu
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
Ariel Sharon