Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- Buddha
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
- Isabel Allende
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
- Silvia Cartwright
Let us have peace.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
- Norman Cousins
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
- Geraldine Ferraro
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 D. Eisenhower
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True humility is contentment.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
- Sydney Madwed
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Andre Gide
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
- H. L. Mencken
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
- Elie Wiesel
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
- Francois Rabelais
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
- John Keble
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
- Black Kettle
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
- Ronald Reagan
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
- Thomas Merton
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
- Desmond Tutu
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
- John Holmes
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
- Dalai Lama
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
- Irving Babbitt
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
- Friedrich Schiller
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
- Godfrey Reggio
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
- Malala Yousafzai
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
- Lech Walesa
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- Francis of Assisi
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
- Ludwig von Mises
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
- Phyllis McGinley
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
- Morihei Ueshiba
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
- Dag Hammarskjold
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
- Tony Snow
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
- William Shakespeare
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
- Buddha
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
- Mark Kennedy
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
- Swami Sivananda
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
- Marianne Williamson
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- Dorothy Thompson
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
- Corazon Aquino
Peace is its own reward.
- Mahatma Gandhi
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
- Thomas Paine
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
- Douglas William Jerrold
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
- Daniel Berrigan
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
- Arthur Henderson
I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
- Prem Rawat
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
Islam means peace.
- Malala Yousafzai
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
- Ludwig von Mises
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
- Benjamin Franklin
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
- Ariel Sharon
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- Buddha
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
- Garrett Morris
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
- Peace Pilgrim
Power to the peaceful!
- Michael Franti
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
- Arthur Henderson
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
- Herodotus
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
- Henri Nouwen
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
- Sandra Cisneros
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
- George Washington
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- Douglas MacArthur
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
- Denzel Washington
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
- Benjamin Franklin
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
- Anne Frank
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
- Karl Marx
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
- Eugene O'Neill
We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
- George W. Bush
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
- Mike Ditka
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- Martin Luther
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
- George Harrison
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
- Morihei Ueshiba
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
- Charles Spurgeon