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

An iron peace is better than a golden war.~ Polish Proverb

A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.~ Bantu 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

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

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

In peace be faithful; in war be valiant.~ New Zealander Proverb

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

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour 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 honour 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 may teach another to speak, but none can teach another to hold his peace.~ Polish Proverb

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 tranquillity 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

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. Muste

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.~ Peace Quotes

There was never a good war or a bad peace.~ Benjamin Franklin

The tree of silence bears the fruits of peace.~ Arabian Proverb

The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace.~ Hebrew Proverb

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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