250 Peace Quote of the Day: Beautiful Lines for Inner Calm

The philosophy of peace spans every culture and century, from ancient Stoics to modern peacemakers. Read one quote each day — reflect on it, share it, or let it guide one quiet moment.

A note on honesty: a few widely-shared lines are marked “Attributed to” where authorship is debated, and lines of genuinely unknown origin are labeled Unknown. Every attribution reflects the widely-documented source — nothing here was invented.

Timeless Peace Quote of the Day Classics

Some lines about peace never age. These are the quotes the world returns to, generation after generation.

1. “Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” — Albert Einstein
2. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
3. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” — Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” — John Lennon
5. “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” — John Lennon
6. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” — The Bible
7. “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.” — The Bible
8. “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
9. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” — The Buddha
10. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
11. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.” — Mahatma Gandhi
12. “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy
13. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
14. “World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power.” — Sri Chinmoy
15. “Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.” — Unknown
16. “The words you speak become the house you live in.” — Hafiz
17. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” — Nelson Mandela
18. “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

Presidents on Peace

From Washington to Obama, American presidents have spoken about peace in moments of war and calm alike.

1. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” — John F. Kennedy
2. “Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.” — John F. Kennedy
3. “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. “We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. “We will have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. “I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
8. “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” — George Washington
9. “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations.” — George Washington
10. “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” — Thomas Jefferson
11. “I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.” — Thomas Jefferson
12. “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” — Ronald Reagan
13. “A people free to choose will always choose peace.” — Ronald Reagan
14. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
15. “There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
16. “War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.” — Jimmy Carter
17. “We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.” — Jimmy Carter
18. “We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” — Jimmy Carter

World Leaders on Peace

Peacemakers around the globe — prime ministers, activists, and freedom fighters — on ending conflict.

1. “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” — Winston Churchill
2. “If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.” — Winston Churchill
3. “Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.” — Winston Churchill
4. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Attributed to Winston Churchill
5. “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin
6. “All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.” — Benjamin Franklin
7. “Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.” — Benjamin Franklin
8. “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
9. “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” — Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.” — Barack Obama
11. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” — Indira Gandhi
12. “The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.” — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
13. “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.” — Kofi Annan
14. “We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.” — Kofi Annan
15. “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war.” — Haile Selassie
16. “We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.” — Haile Selassie
17. “There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” — Havelock Ellis
18. “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” — Thomas Paine
19. “Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.” — Jimmy Carter

Martin Luther King Jr. on Peace

No voice in history speaks of nonviolence more powerfully than Martin Luther King Jr.

1. “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.
2. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
3. “The choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
5. “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
6. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
7. “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
8. “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
9. “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
10. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
11. “We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
12. “If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
13. “Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
14. “Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
15. “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Gandhi on Peace and Nonviolence

Mahatma Gandhi proved that nonviolence could move empires. His words still light the way.

1. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” — Mahatma Gandhi
2. “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.” — Mahatma Gandhi
3. “It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence.” — Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.” — Mahatma Gandhi
5. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
6. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma Gandhi
7. “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” — Mahatma Gandhi
8. “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience.” — Mahatma Gandhi
9. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
10. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
11. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
12. “Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” — Nelson Mandela
13. “Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.” — Nelson Mandela
14. “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” — Nelson Mandela
15. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” — Desmond Tutu
16. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” — Desmond Tutu
17. “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer
18. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” — Albert Schweitzer

Ancient Philosophers on Peace

Long before our time, thinkers asked what peace really means — and how to keep it.

1. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” — Aristotle
2. “We make war that we may live in peace.” — Aristotle
3. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — Plato
4. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. “The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. “The purpose of all wars is peace.” — Saint Augustine
7. “The state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state; the natural state is one of war.” — Immanuel Kant
8. “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. “Peace is a natural effect of trade.” — Montesquieu
10. “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza
11. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” — Edmund Burke
12. “He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.” — Epicurus
13. “Compassion is the basis of morality.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
14. “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” — Confucius
15. “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” — Confucius
16. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” — Confucius
17. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” — Confucius

The Stoics on Inner Peace

The Stoics taught that peace starts inside: master your mind, and the world grows quieter.

1. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius
2. “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” — Marcus Aurelius
3. “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” — Marcus Aurelius
4. “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius
5. “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
6. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” — Marcus Aurelius
7. “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” — Marcus Aurelius
8. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” — Marcus Aurelius
9. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” — Marcus Aurelius
10. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” — Marcus Aurelius
11. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca
12. “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.” — Seneca
13. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” — Seneca
14. “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” — Seneca
15. “No man is free who is not master of himself.” — Epictetus
16. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” — Epictetus
17. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
18. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” — Epictetus

Eastern Wisdom on Peace

From the Buddha to Lao Tzu, Eastern wisdom traces peace to the still point within.

1. “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” — The Buddha
2. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” — The Buddha
3. “The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.” — The Buddha
4. “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — The Buddha
5. “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” — The Buddha
6. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.” — The Buddha
7. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — The Buddha
8. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — The Buddha
9. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” — The Buddha
10. “The tongue like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood.” — The Buddha
11. “To understand everything is to forgive everything.” — The Buddha
12. “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” — The Buddha
13. “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
14. “Silence is a source of great strength.” — Lao Tzu
15. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
16. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” — Lao Tzu
17. “Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.” — Lao Tzu
18. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” — Maha Ghosananda

Voices of Compassion

The Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh teach the same simple truth: compassion is peace in action.

1. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama
2. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” — Dalai Lama
3. “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama
4. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Dalai Lama
5. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” — Dalai Lama
6. “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” — Dalai Lama
7. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” — Dalai Lama
8. “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.” — Dalai Lama
9. “The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
10. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
11. “Peace is every step.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
12. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
13. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
14. “Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
15. “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
16. “It is possible to live happily in the here and now.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
17. “Peace begins when expectation ends.” — Sri Chinmoy
18. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.” — The Bible
19. “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” — The Bible

Champions of Peace

Saints, teachers, and peacemakers who spent their lives turning kindness into change.

1. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa
2. “Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa
3. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa
4. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.” — Mother Teresa
5. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” — Mother Teresa
6. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa
7. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” — Mother Teresa
8. “We don’t need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” — Mother Teresa
9. “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” — Desmond Tutu
10. “We are made for goodness.” — Desmond Tutu
11. “Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering, remembering and not using your right to hit back.” — Desmond Tutu
12. “If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” — Desmond Tutu
13. “We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.” — Desmond Tutu
14. “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
15. “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” — Martin Luther
16. “Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone.” — Hafsat Abiola
17. “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” — Jane Addams
18. “The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.” — Joan Baez
19. “Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.” — The Bible

Poets and Writers on Peace

Poets and novelists have always known: peace is not just the absence of war, but the presence of beauty.

1. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” — Leo Tolstoy
2. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy
3. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo
4. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire
5. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire
6. “Love truth, but pardon error.” — Voltaire
7. “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.” — Voltaire
8. “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” — Henry David Thoreau
10. “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau
11. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau
12. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.” — Henry David Thoreau
13. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
14. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou
15. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou
16. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” — Maya Angelou
17. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
18. “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.” — André Gide

Peace, Love and Music

Musicians carry peace further than speeches ever could — sing these lines today.

1. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” — John Lennon
2. “We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.” — John Lennon
3. “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
4. “War is over, if you want it.” — John Lennon and Yoko Ono
5. “Give me love, give me peace on earth.” — George Harrison
6. “Don’t worry about a thing, ’cause every little thing gonna be all right.” — Bob Marley
7. “One love, one heart, one destiny.” — Bob Marley
8. “How many times must the cannonballs fly before they’re forever banned?” — Bob Dylan
9. “War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate.” — Marvin Gaye
10. “Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race.” — Michael Jackson
11. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope, in a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort.” — Michael Jackson
12. “We are the world, we are the children, we are the ones who make a brighter day.” — Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie
13. “War, huh, yeah, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” — Edwin Starr
14. “One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.” — U2
15. “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” — Jill Jackson Miller and Sy Miller
16. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” — Kahlil Gibran
17. “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” — Kahlil Gibran

Einstein on Peace and Humanity

The world’s most famous scientist was also one of its most outspoken pacifists.

1. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein
2. “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” — Albert Einstein
3. “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.” — Albert Einstein
4. “War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.” — Albert Einstein
5. “The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.” — Albert Einstein
6. “My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting.” — Albert Einstein
7. “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” — Albert Einstein
8. “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how passionately I hate them!” — Albert Einstein
9. “Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” — Albert Einstein
10. “The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” — Albert Einstein
11. “The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” — Albert Einstein
12. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” — Attributed to Albert Einstein
13. “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” — Attributed to Albert Einstein
14. “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell
15. “Love is wise, hatred is foolish.” — Bertrand Russell
16. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” — Wayne Dyer
17. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer

Hope for a Peaceful World

End your reading here: with hope, because every peaceful world begins as someone’s hope.

1. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” — Rumi
2. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” — Rumi
3. “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” — Rumi
4. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” — Rumi
5. “In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” — Rumi
6. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi
7. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” — Rumi
8. “Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country, this is my dream.” — Malala Yousafzai
9. “There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.” — Malala Yousafzai
10. “If you want to end the war then instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.” — Malala Yousafzai
11. “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” — Malala Yousafzai
12. “Conflict cannot survive without your participation.” — Wayne Dyer
13. “If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.” — Dale Carnegie
14. “When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.” — Dale Carnegie
15. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” — Stephen Covey
16. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey
17. “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” — Stephen Covey
18. “Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.” — Kin Hubbard
19. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” — The Bible

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a good peace quote of the day?

A good peace quote of the day is short, calming, and easy to carry in your mind all day. “Peace begins with a smile” by Mother Teresa is a perfect example — simple enough to remember, deep enough to return to.

Who said “Peace begins with a smile”?

“Peace begins with a smile” was said by Mother Teresa, who believed that world peace starts with the smallest acts of kindness between people.

What is the most famous quote about world peace?

John Lennon’s line “Imagine all the people living life in peace” from his song Imagine is among the most famous peace quotes ever written, sung around the world for over fifty years.

Can I share these peace quotes as images?

Yes — the quote cards in this collection are made for sharing. Save an image, post it to your story, or send one to a friend who needs a calmer day. Peace shared is peace multiplied.

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