Top 580 Peace Quotes

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
David Trimble
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Ludwig von Mises
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
Tyler Perry
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
I’m a fixer, unfortunately. I’m like, ‘Oh, I can fix you.’ But it’s not just guys I’m dating anymore. It’s this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
Halsey
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Margaret Cavendish
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Malala Yousafzai
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The European Union is the world’s most successful invention for advancing peace.
John Bruton
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.
George Monbiot
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
Phil Knight
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
I really love peace and quiet.
Barry Sanders
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka
To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Narendra Modi
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, ‘Henry, have you made your peace with God?’ Thoreau said, ‘I didn’t know we’d quarreled.’
Stewart Udall
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love and peace.
Yayoi Kusama
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
David Mamet
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
Mencius
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
Benito Mussolini
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.
Yves Behar
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we’ve set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
Phil Robertson
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Pablo Neruda
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Benazir Bhutto
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
I’m happy and at peace with where I am at life.
Rebecca Lobo
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel Washington
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
Frank Carson
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
A bad peace is even worse than war.
Tacitus
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Defending peace is the duty of all.
Fidel Castro
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Stanley Kubrick
Music is something that should give you peace.
Atif Aslam
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Hamza Yusuf
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
George Matthew Adams
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.
Shaun King
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often.
Christopher Lee
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Shigeru Yoshida
Walter Mercado means love, peace and understanding, means compassion.
Walter Mercado
Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.
Ashraf Ghani
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
Thomas Sowell
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
King George V
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
Alice Paul