1. 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.

- Queen Elizabeth II

2. 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.

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Albert Schweitzer

4. What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

5. Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

6. We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

- Pope Francis

7. 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

8. Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

- Marianne Williamson

9. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

- Rae Carson

10. 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

11. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

- Maria Montessori

12. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

- Baruch Spinoza

13. We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

15. 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

16. Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

- George Carlin

17. 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

18. 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

19. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

- Bruce Lee

20. Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

21. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

- Helen Keller

22. They call it “peace of mind” but maybe it should be called “peace from mind”.

- Navil Ravikant

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

- Estella Eliot

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

- John Lewis

25. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

- Buddha

26. “You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.”

- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

27. It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

- Thomas Fuller

28. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

- Peter McWilliams

29. 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

30. 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.

- C. Joybell C.

31. 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

32. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

- Dale Carnegie

33. Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

- John Holmes

34. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

- Louise Hay

35. I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

36. Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

- Dorothy Thompson

37. People always make war when they say they love peace.

- Charlie Chaplin

38. Forgiveness equals inner peace – more peaceful people equals more world peace.

- Richard Branson

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. Be a peacemaker in everyday life. Display peace in everything you do. Be peace. Live in peace.

- Buddhist Proverb

44. 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

45. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

- Thomas Merton

46. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

- Theodore Roosevelt

48. There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’

- Mahatma Gandhi

49. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

- Mother Teresa

50. We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

- Robert E. Lee

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

- Ronald Reagan

52. Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

- Robert J. Sawyer

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

- Baba Hari Das

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

- Thomas Paine

55. 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

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Eckhart Tolle

58. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

- Dalai Lama

59. If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

- John Lennon

60. Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.

- Thomas a Kempis

61. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

- St. Francis of Assisi

62. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

- John F. Kennedy

63. Peace is its own reward.

- Mahatma Gandhi

64. Peace is the only battle worth waging.

- Albert Camus

65. Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

- Thomas Pynchon

66. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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

- Maha Ghosananda

69. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

- Jane Addams

70. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

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

- Jimi Hendrix

72. Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

- Lin Yutang

73. 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

74. He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

76. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Buddha

80. 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.

- St. Francis de Sales

81. When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

- Muhammad Ali

82. Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

- Katie Byron

83. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- St Francis of Assisi

84. Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay calm.

- Yves Behar

85. 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

86. 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

87. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations… entangling alliances with none.

- Thomas Jefferson

88. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

89. I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live

- Godfrey Reggio

90. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

91. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

- Pema Ch?dr?n

92. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

- Aristotle

93. 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

94. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

- Thomas Jefferson

95. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

97. 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

98. 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.

- Dalai Lama