Top 45 Most Inspirational Peace Quotes You Ever Read

1. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”-Martin Luther King Jr.

2. “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

3. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”-Chuck Palahniuk

4. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”-Mahatma Gandhi

5. “Peace begins with a smile..”-Mother Teresa

6. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”-Michael Cunningham

7. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”-Jalaluddin Rumi

8. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”-Mahatma Gandhi

9. “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”-Oscar Wilde

10. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”-Jimi Hendrix

11. “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”-George Carlin

12. “Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”-Bob Marley

13.“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on Earth.  I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.  I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”-Mahatma Gandhi

14. “When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”-Fred Rogers

15. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”-John Lennon

16. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”-Albert Einstein

17. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”-Milan Kundera

18. “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.-Augustine of Hippo

19. “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

20. “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”-Mahatma Gandhi

22. “Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”-David Baldacci

23. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”-Gautama Buddha

24. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”-Mahatma Gandhi

25. “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”-Roberto Bolaño

26. “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

27. “True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”― Milan Kundera

28. “And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”― Ruskin Bond

29. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”― Albert Camus

30. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”― Jiddu Krishnamurti

31. “You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”― George Bernard Shaw

32. “There is peace even in the storm”― Vincent van Gogh

33. “Rest and be thankful.”― William Wordsworth

34. “Mankind must put an end to war – or war will put an end to mankind.-John F. Kennedy

36. “There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”― Havelock Ellis

37. “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”― Thomas Mann

38. “Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”― Bertrand Russell

39. “Pain will leave you, when you let go”― Jeremy Aldana

40. “Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.”― Mahogany SilverRain

41. “Peace will be the last word of history.”― John Paul II

42. “Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”― Gabriel García Márquez

43. “A people free to choose will always choose peace. ”― Ronald Reagan

44. “Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It’s healthy.”― Kazuo Ishiguro

45. “Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.”― Steve Goodier

46. “Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.”― Maria Montessori

47. “Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?”― Noam Chomsky