Inspirational Peace Quotes, Captions
This collection of peace quotes includes positive and inspirational thoughts from scientists, artists, business people, and world leaders. Use them to spread an uplifting message of hope during holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Ramadan — or at any time of the year!
The most inspiring peace quotes
Let’s begin with our editor’s selection of the top ten best peace quotes.
1. Top 10 best peace quotes
1.) Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
2.) Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
3.) Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama
4.) We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
5.) 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
6.) “You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.”
Mitch Albom
7.) The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
8.) You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
9.) There is peace even in the storm.
Vincent van Gogh
10.) The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Black Elk
2. Inspirational peace quotes
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
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 is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Even in midst of chaos and heartache, you can find peace.
Willow Cross
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Peace is something we must all work for, every day.
Ban Ki-moon
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
Ego says, ‘Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.’
Marianne Williamson
World peace is one project that we have to do together.
Yoko Ono
It’s time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Jesse Jackson
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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3. Peace quotes about life
The greatest quest in life has always been the search for peace.
Richard Daly
There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.
Bruce Lee
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 will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
J. Donald Walters
When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
Louise Hay
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.
Milan Kundera
Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.
Thomas á Kempis
Peace with yourself
When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.
Maha Ghosananda
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating — these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.
Wayne Dyer
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu
Reflection
Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.
Baba Hari Das
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness.
Helen Schucman
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.
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Happiness
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.
Estella Eliot
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.
Tenzin Palmo
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.
Wayne Dyer
Many people think excitement is happiness… But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Joy
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Being thankful can reap many benefits for you like peace and joy.
Jeff & Michelle Niederstadt
4. Peace of mind quotes
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay calm.
Yves Behar
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Unknown
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
Anger is the ultimate destroyer of peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Christian D. Larson
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
Stacy London
Think of the peace of mind you’ll have by just simply telling the truth.
Sandra Forbes
They call it “peace of mind” but maybe it should be called “peace from mind.”
Navil Ravikant
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
Gerald Jampolsky
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner peace sayings
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale
World peace must develop from inner peace.
Dalai Lama
Inner peace is when you do what’s right and let go of the rest.
Maxime Lagacé
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Roy T. Bennett
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
Forgiveness equals inner peace — more peaceful people equals more world peace.
Richard Branson
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Dalai Lama
Serenity
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
We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
Remain calm in every situation because peace equals power.
Joyce Meyer
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Understanding
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s only God who gives you peace and rest.
Greta Zwaan
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
Zen quotes about peace
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
Lao Tzu
There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’
Mahatma Gandhi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
Rumi
Peace begins
When expectation ends.
Sri Chinmoy
Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.
Epictetus
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Siddhārtha Gautama
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Thich Nhat Hanh
For a day, just for one day,
Talk about that which disturbs no one
And bring some peace into your
Beautiful eyes.
Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez
5. Peace and love quotes
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
Jonathan Carroll
Peace and love grow more flowers in your garden!
Avijeet Das
Love is benevolent and harmonious — a haven of peace.
Simon May
Love is my weapon, music is my religion, peace is in my soul.
Unknown
Peace and love are eternal.
John Lennon
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
Peace Pilgrim
If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors.
Frank Sinatra
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
6. Peace and justice quotes
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace comes from justice, and justice comes from truth.
Rudy Scarfalloto
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Ezra Taft Benson
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. Funny peace sayings
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the Universe.
Larry Eisenberg
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. White
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
John Lennon
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8. Short peace quotes
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble
The world is quiet here.
Lemony Snicket
Rest and be thankful.
William Wordsworth
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Albert Camus
Peace, love, empathy.
Kurt Cobain
Peace is liberty in tranquility.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
David Lynch
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Michael Cunningham
9. Famous peace quotes
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations… entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
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
Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people.
John F. Kennedy
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace… Peace will be the last word of history.
Pope John Paul II
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
From literature and books
“If you love me as you say you do,” she whispered, “make it so that I am at peace.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Peace is always beautiful.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
From songs
Imagine all the people
living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
but I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us
and the world will be as one.
John Lennon, “Imagine”
Peace on Earth can it be?
Years from now, perhaps we’ll see?
See the day of glory
See the day, when men of goodwill
Live in peace, live in peace again.
David Bowie, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy”
10. Christmas peace quotes
Use these traditional Christmas carol lyrics about peace in your Christmas cards and greetings.
Peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
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“Do You Hear What I Hear”
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
With news of joy foretold,
“Peace on the earth, good will to men
From heaven’s all gracious King.”
Edmund H. Sears, “It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
Truly He taught us
to love one another;
His law is love and
His gospel is peace.
J.S. Dwight and A.C. Adam, “O Holy Night”
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth.
And praises sing to God the King.
And peace to men on earth.
Phillips Brooks “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Joseph Mohr, “Silent Night”
All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace,
Goodwill henceforth from heaven to men
Begin and never cease.
Nahum Tate, “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”
The heavenly star its rays afar
On every land is throwing,
And shall not cease till holy peace
In all the earth is growing.
“With Wondering Awe”
Hark! the herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn King
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Charles Wesley, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
11. Thoughtful peace quotes
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
Jane Addams
Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.
Malala Yousafzai
Be a peacemaker in everyday life. Display peace in everything you do. Be peace. Live in peace.
Buddhist proverb
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.
Thomas Paine
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill
12. Peace captions for Instagram
Add a peace caption to your social media posts celebrating holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Ramadan — or to ring in the New Year!
- People for peace.
- Increase the peace.
- Peace through music.
- Love each other.
- Peace, love, and happiness.
- Teach peace.
- Peace, love, and music.
- More peace now.
- Choose peace.
- Faith.
- I come in peace.
- All you need is love.
- Hope.
- Universal peace.
- Peace among worlds.
- Achieve inner peace.
- Joy.
- Make peace happen.
- Peace now.
- The power of love.
- My day of peace.
- Peace, love, and rock ’n roll.
- World peace.
- Peace, love, and harmony.
- Flower child.
- Unity.
- Peace on earth.
- Imagine peace.
- Grow peace.
- Kindness.
- Spread peace, not germs.
- Peace and love.
- Inner peace.
- Peace out.
- Wage peace.
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By Greg Johnson | Published 12/1/2021
