1,005 Quotes Regarding Peace


A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison

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

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

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.
Douglas MacArthur

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

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Paine

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

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

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul