110 Peace Quotes to Inspire Tranquility in Life

In today’s hustle and bustle of life peace has become goal for everyone around the world. The journey towards peace starts with introspection and being aware about inner-self. Inspiring quotes have always been good stimulus to make you think and bring changes in life. In this article, we have covered the quotes by Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa and Saint Francis de Sales, who are considered the experts on the topic of peace. Calm your mind, body and spirit with these Peace Quotes and Inspire Tranquility in Life.

Peace Quotes

1. “Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.” ~ Gautama Buddha

2. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” ~ Dalai Lama

3. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” ~ Malcolm X

4. “Peace is a meditation achieved through still mind.” ~ Invajy

5. “The best fighter is never angry.” ~ Lao Tzu
6. “To find inner peace bring changes inside you, in turn things will changes around you.” ~ Invajy
7. “Peace is always beautiful.” ~ Walt Whitman
8. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ~ Aristotle
9. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton
10. “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” ~ Peace Pilgrim

Quotes about Peace

11. “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.” ~ J. Muste
12. “Peace begins with a smile.” ~ Mother Teresa
13. “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Make peace with your broken pieces.” ~ Anonymous
16. “Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense.” ~ African proverb
17. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
18. “If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.” ~ Lao Tzu
19. “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness” ~ Robert Muller
20. “Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” ~ Estella Eliot

Inner Peace Quotes

21. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
22. “Be Grateful in life. Being grateful for what you have in life is a great way to develop peace of mind.” ~ Invajy
23. “Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
24. “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
25. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” ~ Robert J. Sawyer

26. “Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.” ~ Matthew Donnelly
27. “If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” ~ Linda Evans
28. “Only art and music have the power to bring peace.” ~ Yoko Ono
29. “Peace is our gift to each other.” ~ Elie Wiesel
30. “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

Peace Quotes

31. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
32. “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
33. “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
34. “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
35. “Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.” ~ Elie Wiesel

36. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ~ Michael Cunningham
37. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein
38. “You need to make changes in your lifestyle, thoughts and behavior to get the peace you deserve” ~ Invajy
39. “Peace is the first thing the angels sang.” ~ John Keble
40. “Many people think excitement is happiness… But when you are excited, you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace of Mind Quotes

41. “Everyone can get rid of life’s negative influences and nurture peace of mind.” ~ Invajy
42. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” ~ John Wooden
43. “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” ~ George Michael
44. “Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” ~ Baba Hari Das
45. “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
46. “The goal of life is peace of mind, not money; as fish finds peace in water not in honey” ~ Invajy
47. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer
48. “Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.” ~ Christian D. Larson
49. “I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” ~ Helen Keller
50. “Master the art of acceptance and live a peaceful Life.” ~ Invajy

Famous Peace Quotes

51. “You have peace when you make it with yourself.” ~ Mitch Albom
52. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” ~ Amelia Earhart
53. “Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace… Peace will be the last word of history.” ~ Pope John Paul II
54. “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
55. “Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’” ~ Haile Selassie
56. “Peace is not the highest goal in life. It is the most fundamental requirement.” ~ Sadhguru
57. “World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
58. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” ~ Marvin Gaye
59. “When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
60. “I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.” ~ Godfrey Reggio

Inspiring Peace Quotes

61. “Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
62. “We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.” ~ Thomas Merton
63. “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
64. “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” ~ Buddha
65. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melody Beattie
66. “Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.” ~ Rae Carson
67. “Be selective in your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.” ~ Anonymous
68. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
69. “Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.” ~ Mark Twain
70. “Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires.” ~ The Ancient Sage

Peace Quotes

71. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
72. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.” ~ Albert Camus
73. “If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.” ~ Alan Mulally
74. “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.” ~ Winston Churchill
75. “Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow.” ~ River Phoenix
76. “Choose. The single clenched fist lifted and ready, or the open hand, held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.” ~ Carl Sandburg
77. “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
78. “If you want to end the war, then instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.”~ Malala Yousafzai
79. “Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong.” ~ Karen Salmansohn
80. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” ~ Nelson Mandela

Quotes on Peace

81. “Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.” ~ Thomas Paine
82. “We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
83. “Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?” ~ David Baldacci
84. “You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” ~ J. Donald Walters
85. “Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” ~ Congressman John Lewis
86. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.” ~ President Lyndon B. Johnson
87. “First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
88. “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” ~ Ugo Betti
89. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” ~ Marianne Williamson
90. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.”~ Maha Ghosananda

Inspirational Peace Quotes

91. “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” ~ Henry Fielding
92. “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.
93. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” ~ Peter Deunov
94. “Of all our dreams today, there is none more important-or so hard to realize-than that of peace in the world.” ~ Lester B. Pearson
95. “Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.” ~ Randy Armstrong
96. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ~ William Shakespeare
97. “Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” ~ President Ronald Reagan
98. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ~ Desmond Tutu
99. “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
100. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

Finding Peace Quotes

101. “Peace is something we must all work for, every day, in every country.” ~ Ban Ki-moon
102. “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
103. “Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.” ~ Alfred Nobel
104. “Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
105. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
106. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” ~ President John F. Kennedy
107. “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
108. “We will not have peace by afterthought.” ~ Norman Cousins
109. “The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.”~ Golda Meir
110. “I dream of an Africa which is at peace with itself” ~ Nelson Mandela

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