"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson
WarTruth
Peace Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · PEACE
Peace Quotes
Best peace quotes from Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Einstein, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama: 200 lines on harmony and inner calm.
"Either war is finished or we are."
Herbert Read
WarHumanity
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
WarTragedy
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Narosky
WarSoldiers
"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed."
Archibald MacLeish
PeaceMind
"No more war, war never again!"
Pope Paul VI
PeaceWar
"May peace prevail on earth."
Masahisa Goi
PeaceWorld
"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Desmond Tutu
PeaceDialogue
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
William Blake
"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
Confucius
SilenceCalm
"The best fighter is never angry."Lao Tzu
CalmSelf-Control
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."Lao Tzu
ContentmentPeace
"Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free."
Zhuangzi
FreedomAcceptance
"Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions."
Robert M. Pirsig
Peace of MindValues
"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
James Allen
CalmWisdom
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson
CalmMind
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
RestNature
"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher."
William Wordsworth
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
John Burroughs
NatureHealing
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
John Muir
NatureRenewal
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore."
Lord Byron
NatureSolitude
"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow."
William Butler Yeats
"Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep – He hath awakened from the dream of life."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PeaceEternity
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest."
Christian Nestell Bovee
TranquilityJoy
"There is no joy but calm!"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CalmJoy