Top 200 Peace Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

102. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

103. “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

104. “We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

— John Lennon

105. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

— Abraham Lincoln

106. “Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.”

— Regina Brett

107. “A peaceful mind generates power.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

108. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”

— Albert Camus

109. “I am totally safe in the Universe. I am at peace everywhere. I trust life.”

— Louise Hay

110. “Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

111. “Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

— Bertrand Russell

112. “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

113. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

114. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

— Pema Chödrön

115. “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

116. “The Art of Peace begins with you...”

— Morihei Ueshiba

117. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

118. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

119. “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

— Marcus Aurelius

120. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

121. “Poetry is an act of peace.”

— Pablo Neruda

122. “If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.”

— Ramana Maharshi

123. “Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.”

— Max Lucado

124. “If we don’t end war, war will end us.”

— H. G. Wells

125. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.”

— Nhat Hanh

126. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

127. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha

128. “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”

— Ronald Reagan

129. “When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

130. “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

131. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

132. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

— Rumi

133. “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”

— Rumi

134. “We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.”

— Thomas S. Monson

135. “When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

— Wangari Maathai

136. “If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

137. “Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

138. “Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.”

— Maria Montessori

139. “Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”

— William Hazlitt

140. “Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

141. “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

— Albert Einstein

142. “Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.”

— Ramana Maharshi

143. “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

— Howard Zinn

144. “The noblest revenge is to forgive.”

— Thomas Fuller

145. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

146. “Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

147. “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”

— Marianne Williamson

148. “Peace begins when expectation ends.”

— Sri Chinmoy

149. “Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

150. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

— Alan Watts