120 Peace Quotes for a Calm, Rested Mind

If you’re looking for tranquility, restfulness and wisdom, these peace quotes will calm your mind, fill your soul and help you share it with others.

And if you need more zen, make sure to check out these Buddha quotes (for more insight and tranquility) and these healing quotes (to help center yourself).

Peace Quotes

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

“We’ve got one word for Peace…. We don’t have enough words to accurately describe all the different types of peace. I think it was Socrates who once said `if you don’t have a word to describe something, then how can you think about it’.” – Steve Killelea

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.” – Swami Vivekananda

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“I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.” – Mother Teresa

“World peace is one project that we have to do together.” – Yoko Ono

“Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success.” – Matthieu Ricard

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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Choose. The single clenched fist lifted and ready, or the open hand, held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.” – Carl Sandburg

“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor – it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.” – John F. Kennedy

“The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.” – Naval Ravikant

“They call it peace of mind but maybe it should be called peace from mind.” – Naval Ravikant

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” – Helen Keller

“Give me accountability, I’ll give you peace.” – Abhijit Naskar

“On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on earth.” – L. Ron Hubbard

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Achieving world peace, or peace on Earth requires a strong emphasis on knowledge, openness, freedom of information and dialogue. ― Oscar Auliq” – Ice

“Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.” – Bernard Baruch

“It’s only God who gives you peace and rest.” – Greta Zwaan, Guidances

“World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.” – Daisaku Ikeda

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“World peace stays a dream and is impossible until the veto power holders become unable to practice veto-dragon since that causes injustice, wars, and destruction.” – Ehsan Sehgal

“There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.” – Marianne Williamson

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” – Pres. Dwight Eisenhower

“If we are to reach real peace in the world, we will have to begin with the children.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.” – Carol Burnett

“To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.” – Zen proverb

“If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” – Linda Evans

“Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.” – Matthew Donnelly

“Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.” – Bella Thorne

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” – Dalai Lama

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.” – James Allen

“Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.” – Bob Marley

“We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I’ve always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.” – Dave Matthews

“If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.” – Alan Mulally

“The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Inner peace is like a clean and spacious room, empty of unnecessary, old, or broken stuff.” – Remez Sasson

“Of all our dreams today, there is none more important—or so hard to realize—than that of peace in the world.” – Lester B. Pearson

“Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires.” – The Ancient Sage

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” – Publilius Syrus

“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.” – Sophocles

“Inner peace is when you do what’s right and let go of the rest.” – Maxime Lagacé

“The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.” – J. Irwin Miller

“Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” – Seymour Miller

“Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.” – Dag Hammarskjold

“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.” – Bertrand Russell

“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

“To reach peace, teach peace.” – Pope John Paul II

“Be the harmony in the melody echoing in the heart of humanity.” – Abhijit Naskar

“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Desmond Tutu

“Remain calm in every situation because peace equals power.” – Joyce Meyer

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” – President John F. Kennedy

“Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman

“I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.” – Suzy Kassem

“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.” – Hafsat Abiola

“If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.” – Douglas Coupland

“It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.” – Prem Rawat

“Bringing peace to your own life adds peace in the world.” – Carol ‘CC’ Miller

“By dedicating ourselves to peace, understanding, kindness and compassion, we do our part to heal the world.” – Laurence Overmire

“Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.” – Epictetus

“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

“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.

“If we want more healing and peace in the world, let us each start with our homes, our relationships, our mindsets, and ourselves.” – Lisa J. Shultz

“Peace at home, peace in the world.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there’s somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.” – Mira Grant

“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” – Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Forgiveness equals inner peace – more peaceful people equals more world peace.” – Richard Branson

“The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.” – Sean Lennon

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela

“For a beautiful peaceful world, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.” – Suzy Kassem

“World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity – it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.” – Jeremy Gilley

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“We each possess what is needed to create peace on earth. We all know how to love, we just need to practice using that knowledge in all aspects of life.” – Lisa Prosen

“World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power.” – Sri Chinmoy

“If you’ve got a world full of people who have inner peace, then you have a peaceful world.” – Wayne W. Dyer

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama

“Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“If you want inner peace, unconditionally forgive everyone. If you want world peace, be an example and love everyone.” – Debasish Mridha

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” – Peace Pilgrim

“Peace does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” – Priest Henri Nouwen

“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.” – Black Elk

“Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat.” – Bhagavad Gita

“For peace to reign on earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.” – Immanuel Kant

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” – Buddha

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon

“World peace starts with the Creator – Jesus.” – Mary Kate

“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.” – David O. McKay

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” – Eric Hoffer

“No two leaves are alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.” – Mathama Gandhi

“Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.” – Sargent Shriver

“Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace.” – Peace Pilgrim

“Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Individual peace is the unit of world peace.” – David Lynch

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama

“If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.” – Jaggi Vasudev

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.” – Christian D. Larson

“To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.” – Arthur Henderson

“By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process.” – Johan Galtung

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Everyone loves everyone and hates none.” – Debasish Mridha

“World peace. I know it’s a big ask, but I really really really want it.” – Annie Murphy

“First make peace inside yourself.” – Nick Nolte

“Without changing one’s self, without peace in one’s self, world peace is not possible.” – Dalai Lama

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer