peace Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

159 peace Quotes
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
A. J. Muste Quotes
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim Quotes
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha Quotes
“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”
Robert Fulghum Quotes
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama Quotes
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
“This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes
Source: written in an album
“Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.]”
Bible Quotes
Source: Genesis (ch. XLIII, v. 23)
“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Isaiah (ch. II, v. 4)
“The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Isaiah (ch. XI, v. 6)
“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Luke (ch. II, v. 13-14)
“And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]”
Bible Quotes
Source: Luke (ch. X, v. 5)
“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Philippians (ch. IV, v. 7)
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. III, v. 17)
“For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXII, v. 8)
“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXXV, v. 10)
“The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.”
William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Source: Mutation (l. 4)
“The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto, l. 359)
“Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
“Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, l. 177)
“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.]”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, l. 177)
“War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: De Officiis (I, 22)