Peace Quotes

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Eddie Myers

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov, 1897

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Bible, Isaiah 32: 17

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

Mother Theresa

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Alice Walke

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 Theresa

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.

Juvenal

Find peace in where and what you are.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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 deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

Scott Russell Sanders

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

Caitlin Matthews