Peace Quotes

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Gandhi

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: It is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

Thales

Be a friend to peace.

Talmud

Labor to promote peace.

Hillel

Peace is holding the tongue.

Ahmed Vesik

How pleasant is a life of peace.

Udaijin

Peace flourishes where reason rules.

L Barrey

Better keep peace than make peace.

N Kaas

Peace is the greatest of all blessings.

Polybius

In time of peace cultivate the arts of peace.

Alfred the Great

Peace becometh a king who is a follower of the Prince of Peace.

James I

Blessedness is promised to the peace-maker, not to the conqueror.

F Quarles

It is peace that brings plenty: plenty is the foster-child of peace.

Ovid

Peace is love reposing; it is love on the green pastures; it is love beside the still waters.

J Hamilton

Peace is like a beautiful city at rest, calmly sleeping upon the waters.

A Bradford

Peace is greater than all other treasures, but no philosophy can bestow it.

Krummacher

It is a point of godly wisdom, to be at peace with men, and at war with vices.

H C Chapman

It is better to sleep in peace on the bare ground, than to lie unquiet on a soft bed.

Phocion

Peace flourisheth where peace ruleth, and joy reigneth where modesty directeth.

M A Delrio

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Colton

Peace is a public blessing, without which no man is safe in his fortunes, his liberty, or his life.

Sir W Temple

All desire rest, peace, and pleasure; but nowhere shall we find it but in yielding ourselves unto God.

Jane T L Worthington

Love peace.

No people ever trained in the principles of liberty will ever accept of any peace that is not founded on liberty.

L Stephens

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

Henry VII

Deep peace of the running wave to you.

Deep pace of the flowing air to you.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

Deep peace of the shining stars to you.

Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.

Celtic benediction

Only when our minds and hearts are restfully focused on Jesus can we become reflections of His strong, steady, unshakeable peace.

Do not be in a hurry to fill up an empty space with words and embellishments, before it has been filled with a deep interior peace.

Alexander Elchaninov

It’s better to cheerfully endure inconvenience than to part with peace and contentment.

Ellen G White

Peace comes not from what my hands possess, but from what my heart possesses. Peace comes not from what I have, but from the One that has me.

Ego says: Once everything falls into place, I will find peace.

Spirit says: Find peace, and everything will fall into place.

Marianne Williamson

Where there is faith, there is love. Where there is love, there is peace. Where there is peace, there is God. Where there is God, there is no need.

A man at peace with God and his fellow men cannot be made miserable.

Ellen G White

Be a friend to peace.

Talmud

Peace flourishes where reason rules.

L Barrey

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us, namely, avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; and if those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

Peace to be of value must be permanent; and to be permanent it must be founded on sound principles.

C A Dana

Living peaceably implies not merely some few transitory performances, proceeding from casual humour, or the like; but as a constant, stable, and well-settled condition of being, a continual cessation from injury, and a promptitude to do good offices.

L Barrow

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence even in disagreeable things, not in an exemption from suffering.

Fenelon

The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

Ellen G White

There can be no peace where pride reigns.

D Waterland

Peace is the opposite of passion, and of labour, toil, and effort. Peace is that state in which there are no desires madly demanding an impossible gratification; that state in which there is no misery, no remorse, no sting.

F W Robertson

Peace is victory over sin.

Peace is victory over the sin that oppresses, and the sin which corrupts.

Peace is liberty calmly enjoyed.

Cicero

He that has peace with God is armed cap-a-pie; he is covered from head to foot in a panoply. The arrow may fly against it, but it cannot pierce it.

C H Spurgeon

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light; it springs up amid tears and clouds; it is a reflection of the eternal sun; it is an assurance of calm; it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man; it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Colton

There is no help for us but in God. We can be at peace only as we rest in Him and wait for HIs salvation.

Ellen G White

Peace is the natural tone of a well-regulated mind at one with itself. External circumstances may assume a threatening aspect, and unhinge for a time the most stoical disposition, but a truly noble soul yields not.

Humboldt

Peace in man is an imperative duty, and he loses in the eyes of the right-thinking all title to respect when he shows a deficiency in this quality.

Humboldt

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Arthur Powell Davies

Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.

Matthew Donnelly

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.

Maha Ghosananda

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

David Baldacci

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

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

Albert Einstein

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.

Thomas Paine

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr

There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Make peace with your broken pieces.

There is no way to peace, peace is the way.

A J Muste

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

John Harricharan

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

Baruch Spinoza

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

John F Kennedy

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.

African Proverb

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Albert Camus

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Victor Hugo

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace is its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of faith, strength, energy, will, sympathy, justice, imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

Peace is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another.

William Ellery Channing

Peace is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds… an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.

William Ellery Channing

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

African Proverb

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Alex Noble

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

Augustine of Hippo

Better keep peace than make peace.

N Kaas

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X