40 Peace Quotes That Inspire Inner Balance And Love

Whether you are seeking a special quote to insert into a card for a friend, looking to embrace your own inner peace, or need something inspirational to caption a social post, let this collection of peace quotes be your guide to a more harmonious world.

Inner Peace Quotes

• “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham
• “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ― Aristotle
• “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ― Eckhart Tolle
• “Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do and something you give away. ” ― Robert Fulghum
• “You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.” ― Mitch Albom
• “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ― Siddhārtha Gautama
• “You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
• “World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
• “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” ― Albert Schweitzer
• “Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.” ― Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Calming Peace Quotes

• “Peace begins with a smile." ― Mother Teresa
• “Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
• “If you love me as you say you do," she whispered, "Make it so that I am at peace.” ― Leo Tolstoy
• “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon
• “There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
• “Rest and be thankful.” ― William Wordsworth
• “Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?” ― Kamand Kojouri
• “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”― J. Krishnamurti
• “The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.” ― Thomas à Kempis
• “I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
• “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” ― Buddha
• “There is peace even in the storm." ― Vincent van Gogh
• “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” ― Marianne Williamson
• “Language is the key to the heart of people.” ― Ahmed Deedat

Inspirational Peace Quotes

• “Peace is always beautiful.” ― Walt Whitman
• “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
• “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Jimi Hendrix
• “Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.” ― Laini Taylor
• “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
• “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ― Albert Einstein
• “When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.” ― Roy T. Bennett
• “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,” ― Amit Ray
• “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.” ― Thomas Merton
• “A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.” ― Daisaku Ikeda
• “In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.” ― Masashi Kishimoto
• “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• “If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.” ― Hiro Mashima
• “If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.” ― Confucius