74 Inspirational Peace Day Quotes to Transform Your Inner World

"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

"This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."

- Peace Pilgrim

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

- A.J. Muste

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion."

- Dalai Lama XIV

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

- Jimi Hendrix

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

- Martin Luther King III

"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

"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world."

- Maha Ghosananda

"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

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."

- The 14th Dalai Lama

"If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart."

- Lao Tzu

"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

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

- Gautama Buddha

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace."

- Buddha

"Peace is always beautiful."

- Walt Whitman

"Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony."

- Laini Taylor

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human understanding. We must be doctors who can cure the virus of violence. We must be soldiers of peace who can do more than preach to the choir. And we must be artists who will make the world our masterpiece."

- Paul K. Chappell

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

- John Lennon

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul… Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"Unless we teach children peace, someone else will teach them violence."

- Colman McCarthy

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

- Nelson Mandela

"Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. It is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present, you will never find it."

- Thomas Merton

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

- Anne Frank

"If you want peace, work for justice."

- Pope Paul VI

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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

- Ronald Reagan

"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 live as one."

- John Lennon

"Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division."

- John Lewis

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

- Kathryn Budig

"Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are."

- Hafsat Abiola

"Peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization."

- Prem Rawat

"You may find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"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."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."

- Jimmy Carter

"If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present."

- Lao Tzu

"Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own."

- Baba Hari Das

"Peace cannot be bullied into existence."

- Ali Jarbawi

"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

"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organise the peace."

- Aristotle

"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

"War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited."

- Alice Walker

"A people free to choose will always choose peace."

- Ronald Reagan

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

- Malcolm X

"Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances."

- Estella Eliot

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

- Albert Schweitzer

"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is peace even in the storm."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."

- Marianne Williamson

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"

- Amit Ray

"The beauty of peace is in trying to find solutions together."

- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi

"Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends."

- Johan Galtung

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Peace is liberty in tranquility."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Anton Chekhov

"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

"Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave."

- Alanis Morissette

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

- Michael Cunningham

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."

- George Carlin

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"Rest and be thankful."

- William Wordsworth

"Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."