Peace Quotes and Sayings

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

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine

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

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekov

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A smile is the beginning of peace.
- Mother Teresa

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
- James Conrad

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi


One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie


We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekov


In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
- Mark Twain