Peace Quotes and
Peace Quotations

Peace quotes are very timely and they speak to us across all sectors of society. These peace sayings and peace quotations should be taken to heart as we all attempt to live more peaceful lives and bring peace the the world around us.

Peace truly does come from within as the Buddha says so take these quotes about peace to heart and share them with your community.

Together we can make this world a more peaceful place for everyone. Enjoy this collection of peace quotes.

Peace Quote Collection

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
- Buddha

"If we give up selfishness and resolve to take the barest minimum for the satisfaction of our wants, there will be no occasion for wars. Unless there is a complete transformation in our economy and our style of life, peace will elude us, however hard we may strive for it."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "
- Mother Teresa

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
- John F. Kennedy

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
- William Ewart Gladstone

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"You cannot have peace longer than your neighbor chooses."
- Danish proverb

"To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country."
- Jimmy Carter

"Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God."
- Bible, Matthew 5:9

More Quotes About Peace

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."
- Goethe

"Keep the peace and I'll see you at the struggle."
- rebsblack

"You can't change anything from outside it. Standing apart, looking down, taking the overview, you see the pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be a part of the weaving."
- Ursula K. LeGuin, Four Ways to Forgiveness

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy

"Before me peaceful,
Behind me peaceful,
Under me peaceful,
Over me peaceful,
All around me peaceful."
- Navajo song

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
- Max Lerner

"Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the godliness of human nature."
- Mahatma Gandhi

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

"Peace can be found only within."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The mere absence of war is not peace."
- John F. Kennedy

"All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other."
- Benjamin Franklin

I hope that you enjoyed these peace quotes, quotations and peace sayings. Together let's bring peace to our homes, our communities and to the world at large.