Peace Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old peace quotes, peace sayings, and peace proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Peace is its own reward. Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. Martin Luther
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. Laini Taylor
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Bernard Baruch
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. Ronald Reagan
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. Marthin Luther King Jr.
Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. Robert Fulghum
Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. Sri Chinmoy
Peace is the only battle worth waging. Albert Camus
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. Yehudi Menuhin
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. William Collins
Peace. It doesn not mean to be in place where there is no noise, trouble, or hardwork. It means to be in the midst of those and still be calm in your heart. unknown
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. Mahatma Gandhi
There is no way to peace, only peace. A. J. Muste
To reach peace, teach peace. Pope John Paul II
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others Peace Pilgrim
Where there is peace, God is. George Herbert
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself. Mitch Albom
The art of peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the Voice of Peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor. Morihei Ueshiba
The practice of the art of peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. Morihei Ueshiba
No loud noise to interrupt my reverie so sweet, / Rendezvous with the past, future perhaps to meet. / Far away the cooing of a turtle dove, / Singing of its never-ending love. George Bernard Shaw
Peace between races is not to be secured by degrading one race and exalting another, by giving power to one race and withholding it from another, but by maintaining a state of equal justice between all classes. Frederick Douglass
Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. Milton
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. Frank Hubbbard
Peace begins just where ambition ends. Edward Young
Peace in the present time is based more on fear than on friendship. Paul VI
Peace cannot suddenly descend from the heavens. It can only come when the root-cause of trouble is removed. Nehru
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Emerson