Top 200 Peace Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

— Sun Tzu

152. “War is never a lasting solution for any problem.”

— Abdul Kalam

153. “For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.”

— Larry Eisenberg

154. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

155. “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”

— Brian Tracy

156. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas

157. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

— Peter F. Drucker

158. “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .”

— Dalai Lama XIV

159. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

— Benjamin Franklin

160. “It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”

— Grace Murray Hopper

161. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

— Steve Maraboli

162. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

— Desmond Tutu

163. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

164. “Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

165. “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

— Thomas Paine

166. “Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.”

— Stephen R. Covey

167. “Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life.”

— George Harrison

168. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

— Mother Teresa

169. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

— Abraham Lincoln

170. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Desmond Tutu

172. “To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

173. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

— John Muir

174. “I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

175. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

176. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

— John F. Kennedy

177. “Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

178. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

— Malcolm X

179. “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

— Calvin Coolidge

180. “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra

181. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

— Jack Kornfield

182. “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.”

— Michael Jackson

183. “Bringing people together is what i call ‘ubuntu,’ which means ‘I am because we are.’ Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

— Desmond Tutu

184. “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

185. “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Desmond Tutu

187. “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

— Og Mandino

188. “Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

— Mary McLeod Bethune

189. “If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.”

— Marianne Williamson

190. “The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”

— Rick Warren

191. “Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”

— Ramana Maharshi

192. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

193. “The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.”

— Ludwig von Mises

194. “He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”

— Thomas Fuller

195. “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

196. “There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.”

— Pope John Paul II

197. “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

198. “All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”

— Abdul Kalam

199. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

200. “Pray, hope and don’t worry. Anxiety doesn’t help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.”

— Pio of Pietrelcina