Sayings about Peace
Where there is love, there is peace. ~ Myanmar Proverb
The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Peace and tranquillity are a thousand gold pieces. ~ Chinese Proverb
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife. ~ Arabian Proverb
True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. ~ Native American Proverb
A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment. ~ Indian Proverbs
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace. ~ Chadian Proverb
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. ~ Persian Proverb
When you can’t find peace within yourself, it’s useless to seek it elsewhere. ~ French Proverb
Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house and a happy life. ~ Dutch Proverb
Eternal peace lasts until the next war. ~ Russian Proverb
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. ~ Turkish Proverb
If you wish for peace be ready for war. ~ Traditional Proverb
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. ~ French Proverb
Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs. ~ Scottish Proverbs
Peace with a club in hand is war. ~ Portuguese Proverb
There is no other happiness but peace. ~ Thai Proverb
Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime. ~ Hungarian Proverb
Peace is only possible after war. ~ Arabian Proverb
A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. ~ Bantu Proverb
To live in peace one must be blind, deaf, and mute. ~ Turkish Proverbs
No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases. ~ Dutch Proverb
Make peace with people; wage war with your sins. ~ Russian Proverb
Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years. ~ Sicilian Proverb
If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Ignorance is the peace of life. ~ Kashmiri Proverb
If you want to live in peace, you must not tell everything that you know, nor judge everything that you see. ~ Mexican Proverb
An iron peace is better than a golden war. ~ Polish Proverbs
A bad peace is better than a good quarrel. ~ Russian Proverb
Peace pays what war wins. ~ Serbian Proverb
Better to eat bread in peace, then cake amid turmoil. ~ Slovak Proverb
Do something at its right time, and peace will accompany it. ~ African Proverb
He who loves peace minds his own business. ~ Chinese Proverb
Hypocrisy is the mother of peace. ~ Moorish Proverb
When a king has good counsellors, his reign is peaceful. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
In peace be faithful; in war be valiant. ~ New Zealander Proverb
Better to eat beans in peace than to eat meat in distress. ~ Guatemalan Proverb
Better keep peace than make peace. ~ Dutch Proverbs
A bad peace is better than a good war. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes. ~ Russian Proverbs
Silence gives rise to peace and with peace comes security. ~ African Proverb
One minute of patience, ten years of peace. ~ Greek Proverbs
The tree of silence bears the fruits of peace. ~ Arabian Proverb
Better to be a dog in peacetime that a man in wartime. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Peace
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 at it. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ~ George Washington
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ~ Maria Montessori
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. ~ James Thomson
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting. ~ Barack Obama Quotes
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy. ~ George Washington Quotes
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. ~ Joseph Conrad
Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war. ~ John Milton
Peace is the bright star of the world. ~ Edward Counsel
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. ~ Vegetius
Let us have peace. ~ Ulysses Simpson Grant,
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. ~ Ben Hecht
In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere. ~ Jimmy Carter Quotes
Peace is the masterpiece of reason. ~ Johann Muller
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land. ~ Anwar al-Sadat
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ~ A. J. Muste
All we are saying is give peace a chance… ~ John Lennon
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ~ Ambrose Bierce
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. ~ Richard M. Nixon
What we need is a generation of peace. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Peace with honor. ~ Theobald II
It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
You have peace … when you make it with yourself. ~ Mitch Albom
Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job. ~ Wayne Dyer
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ~ John Ruskin
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Peace is the only battle worth waging. ~ Albert Camus
At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul. ~ Hugh Black
Peace is the fairest form of happiness. ~ William Ellery Channing
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement. ~ Winfield Scott
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. ~ Thomas Fuller
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. ~ John F. Kennedy Quotes
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. ~ Peace Pilgrim
Peace we want because there is another war to fight: against poverty and disease. ~ Indira Gandhi Quotes
An army in peace is like an overcoat in July–not useful, but not to be thrown away. ~ Austin O’Malley
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror. ~ Francis Quarles
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ~ Albert Einstein Quotes
Peace is produced by war. ~ Pierre Corneille
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war. ~ John Quincy Adams
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower
If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. ~ John C. Maxwell
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. ~ John Lennon
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others. ~ Thomas a Kempis
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. ~ William Shakespeare
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. ~ Laini Taylor
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. ~ Thomas a Kempis
All true conflict should aim at peace. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Peace is indivisible. ~ Maxim Litvinov
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. ~ Henry Van Dyke
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace is achieved by accepting the things you’re not willing to change and changing the things your not willing to accept. ~ Marilyn Suttle
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. ~ Andrew Jackson
We should provide in peace what we need in war. ~ Syrus
Peace … is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. ~ Cyril Connolly
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
Right human relations is the only true peace. ~ Alice A. Bailey
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ Helen Keller Quotes
If you want peace work for justice. ~ Pope Paul VI
When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. ~ Helen Schucman
In time of peace prepare for war. ~ Vegetius
World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it. ~ Peace Pilgrim
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~ Moshe Dayan
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ~ Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Peace often seems the one thing fair and desirable, so that the cloister or the forest, or the vessel on the lonesome sea, is the most grateful object of imagination. ~ Charles Horton Cooley
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. ~ Julius Kambarge Nyerere
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace with all nations, and the rights which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. ~ Bible
The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness. ~ Mary of Mejugorje
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God. ~ Thomas Aquinas
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~ John Andrew Holmes
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace. ~ Philip James Bailey
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is our passion. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Right is more precious than peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. ~ Barack Obama
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ~ Pope John XXIII
Peace is an attribute of the highest power. ~ E. H. Chapin
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ~ George W. Bush
Peace is stronger than war. ~ Edward Counsel
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~ St. Theresa of Lisieux
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
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 Eisenhower
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
They make a wilderness and call it peace. ~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium–an accident. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
Though peace be made, yet it’s interest that keep peace. ~ Oliver Cromwell
To get Peace you must work for Justice. ~ John Paul VI Quotes
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair. ~ Euripides
Find peace in where and what you are. ~ Christopher Paolini
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa Quotes
Peace, like charity, begins at home. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Peace renders nations happier and men weaker. ~ Luc De Clapiers
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation. ~ Richard Nixon
Peace is priceless, but not at any price. ~ Robert Elliott Gonzales
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. ~ Martin Luther
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. ~ John Russell
As the birth of a country arises may all victory come through peace. ~ Todd D. Maddocks
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. ~ Thomas a Kempis
