Peace Quotes

  • A bad peace is better than a good quarrel. ~ Russian Proverb
  • A bad peace is better than a good war. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment. ~ Indian Proverb
  • A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace. ~ Chadian Proverb
  • A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ~ Abraham Maslow
  • A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. ~ Bantu Proverb
  • An iron peace is better than a golden war. ~ Polish Proverb
  • Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime. ~ Hungarian Proverb
  • Better keep peace than make peace. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife. ~ Arabian Proverb
  • Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • Eternal peace lasts until the next war. ~ Russian Proverb
  • Hypocrisy is the mother of peace. ~ Moorish Proverb
  • I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. ~ William F. Claire
  • I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they’ll forget my number. ~ Edith Armstrong
  • I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death … I think. Peace and tranquillity will return again. ~ Anne Frank
  • I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.~ Dwight David Eisenhower
  • If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. ~ Persian Proverb
  • If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
  • 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
  • If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
  • If you wish for peace be ready for war. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Ignorance is the peace of life. ~ Kashmiri Proverb
  • In peace be faithful; in war be valiant. ~ New Zealander Proverb
  • It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labor of peace. ~ Andre Gide
  • It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.~ Jimmy Carter
  • Make peace with man and war with your sins. ~ Russian Proverb
  • Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. ~ Kahlil Gibran
  • Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~ St. Francis de Sales
  • No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • One minute of patience can mean ten years of peace. ~ Greek Proverb
  • Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. ~ Gerald Jampolsky
  • Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
  • Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower
  • Peace and tranquility are a thousand gold pieces. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs. ~ Scottish Proverb
  • Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes. ~ Russian Proverb
  • Peace pays what war wins. ~ Serbian Proverb
  • Silence gives rise to peace and with peace comes security. ~ African Proverb
  • Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace. ~ D.H. Lawrence
  • The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
  • The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
  • The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all. ~ Albert Camus
  • The tree of silence bears the fruits of peace. ~ Arabian Proverb
  • The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace. ~ Hebrew Proverb
  • There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. ~ Black Elk
  • There is no other happiness but peace. ~ Thai Proverb
  • There is no way to peace, peace is the way. ~ A. J. Muster
  • There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.~ Author Unknown
  • There was never a good war or a bad peace. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. ~ Doris Mortman
  • War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. ~ Scottish Proverb
  • We can search the world over, for peace, for love, and honor. We can look from now to eternity, for all we do not own. We can search until life is ending, then when life is nearly ore. We find we had what we needed, only now, its too hard to bear. ~ Donald D. Campbell
  • We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~ William Ellery Channing
  • We should really love each other in peace and harmony; instead we’re fussin’ n fighting like we ain’t supposed to be. ~ Bob Marley
  • We won the war, but lost peace. ~ Serbian Proverb
  • When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. ~ French Proverb
  • When we can’t find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Where there is love, there is peace. ~ Myanmar Proverb
  • Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years. ~ Sicilian Proverb
  • Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house and a happy life. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Without war there can be no peace. ~ Congolese Proverb

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