Peace Quotes

"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yutang

"A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder."

Thomas Fuller

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

"You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather."

Pema Chödrön

"Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice."

Shane Claiborne

"Without forgiveness, there's no future."

Desmond Tutu

"We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness."

Desmond Tutu

"Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world."

"Concord alone is commendable."

Ashoka

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."

Ramana Maharshi

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

Victor Hugo

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

Maha Ghosananda

"Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew."

John Greenleaf Whittier

"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land."

Anwar Sadat

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

H. G. Wells

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

Barbara Tuchman

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

"All works of love are works of peace."

Mother Teresa

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy."

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

"Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride."

Petrarch