Peace - Quotes & Sayings

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

Sri Chinmoy

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John F. Kennedy

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Richard Dawkins

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Haile Selassie

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Michael Jordan

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Robert Plant

At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.

Gal Gadot

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

Mahmoud Abbas

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Nelson Mandela

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

Kristin Armstrong

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

Prem Rawat

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Mos Def

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Kofi Annan

You don't kill your way to peace.

Imran Khan

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

Silvia Cartwright

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Oliver Tambo

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

Caroline Kennedy

We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis of social justice and where everyone can live in peace and honour.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace.

Donald Trump

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

Sandra Bullock

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Billy Campbell

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Ronald Reagan

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

Ban Ki-moon

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

Malcolm X

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Elie Wiesel

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt