Peace Quotes

142. 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}

143. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

144. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

145. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

^Buddha

146. I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

^{Nelson Mandela}

147. The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

^{Tony Snow}

148. Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

^{Phyllis McGinley}

149. It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

^{John F. Kennedy}

150. Peace is its own reward.

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

151. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

^{Dwight D. Eisenhower}

152. What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

^{Mikhail Gorbachev}

153. I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

^{Prem Rawat}

154. 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.

^{Albert Einstein}

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

^{Francis of Assisi}

156. There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

^{Richard Pryor}

157. He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

^{Benjamin Franklin}

158. Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

159. The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

160. Let us have peace.

^{Ulysses S. Grant}

161. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

^{William Shakespeare}

162. I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

^{Malala Yousafzai}

163. 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}

164. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

165. Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world.Amen.

^{Marianne Williamson}

166. I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

^{Georges Clemenceau}

167. As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

^{Corazon Aquino}

168. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

^Buddha

169. Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

^{Dorothy Thompson}

170. 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}

171. You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.

^{Geraldine Ferraro}

172. One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

^{Daniel Berrigan}

173. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

174. An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

^{Thomas Paine}

175. The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

^{Dag Hammarskjold}

176. The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

^{Arthur Henderson}

177. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

^{Benjamin Franklin}

178. 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.

^{Mother Teresa}

179. Islam means peace.

^{Malala Yousafzai}

180. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

^Buddha

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

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

182. This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

^{Mark Kennedy}

183. 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}

184. It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

^{Arthur Henderson}

185. The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

^{Ludwig von Mises}

186. For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

^{Ariel Sharon}

187. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

^{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}