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Peace Quotes

Peace is harmony and calm or stillness. It means the absence of strife and allowing tranquility prevail. With people belonging to different caste, creed, color and nationality, maintaining peace is kind of difficult. But there are international organizations like United Nations which work towards spreading peace and friendship within neighboring countries or different communities. An important political figure called Mahatma Gandhi was involved with the Non-violence Movement which gathered a huge fan following. Read the quotes given below to find out more.

John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.

Xi Jinping

China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.

Leon Trotsky

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Mother Teresa

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

Antonio Brown

Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

Linda Evans

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

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Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Queen Elizabeth II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

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Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.

Roger Moore

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Malala Yousafzai

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Naomi Osaka

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

George Washington

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

George Harrison

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Indira Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Woody Allen

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Thomas Merton

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

George Michael

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Andre Iguodala

I feel like golf has brought me some peace.

Douglas MacArthur

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Tom Hayden

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Marvin Gaye

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Erich Fromm

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Mitch Albom

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Rafael Nadal

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

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John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.

King George V

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Benito Mussolini

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Anthony Bourdain

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

Marvin Gaye

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Tobey Maguire

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

Shinzo Abe

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Ronald Reagan

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Kangana Ranaut

I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

Sandra Bullock

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Tulsi Gabbard

The cause of peace is too great for us to allow political disagreements or partisanship to stand in our way.

Ilaiyaraaja

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

Andrew Jackson

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Tom Cruise

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Raul Julia

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

Stan Lee

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Desmond Tutu

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

George W. Bush

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Dwight Howard

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

Denzel Washington

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Gal Gadot

At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.

Thomas Paine

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

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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Sri Sathya Sai Baba

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

Joe Biden

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

George W. Bush

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Jessie Buckley

'War and Peace' is about relationships: family relationships, loving relationships, relationships at war... it's a really young story as well.

Malcolm X

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Pranab Mukherjee

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

Anne Frank

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

River Phoenix

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

Marcus Aurelius

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Jimmy Carter

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Sylvester Stallone

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Stevie Wonder

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Martin Luther

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Gal Gadot

Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.

Tyler Perry

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

Andre Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Osama bin Laden

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Kurt Cobain

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Cameron Diaz

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Yoko Ono

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Harry S. Truman

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.