81 Quotes About Peace

Be inspired by this collection of quotes about peace. Peace from war, peace of mind, peace in relationships, and peace with God and from God are all covered in these quotes. The majority of quotes are taken from poems that offer inspirational words of wisdom. You may also find inspiration in these poems about peace.

Updated September 2, 2026, by Catherine Pulsifer.

Inner Peace And Peace Of Mind

These quotes remind us that lasting peace often begins within, through our thoughts, choices, and outlook on life.

May you have peace of mind, joy in your heart and blessings like no other can impart.
Catherine Pulsifer, God Bless

And may you find, sweet peace of mind, where ever you may roam.
Irish Blessing, To You My Friend

So make sure your outlook is one full of joy and light. The peace you gain will be yours throughout the days, as living positively leads you in many ways.
Catherine Pulsifer, Living Positively

Change nothing, just be yourself to experience peace.
Tapan Ghosh

Without trust there can be no peace of mind.
Iyanla Vanzant, Trust

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
Denzel Washington

I really thought that happiness had a lot to do with pleasure and I realized that happiness is about peace.
Jada Pinkett Smith

Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure, winning or losing.
Debasish Mridha

Peace Through Faith In God

Faith can bring a quiet confidence that God is near, even when life feels uncertain or difficult.

Dear God, I’m pleading, give me peace, help me to understand, Your loving kindness will come through, that our whole life is planned.
Greta Zwaan, Help Me Lord

Lord make me an instrument of your peace.
St. Francis of Assisi, The Peace Prayer

If there was ever a secret for unleashing God’s powerful peace in a situation, it’s developing a heart of true thanksgiving.
Lysa TerKeurst

Oh gracious Lord...Today, help me so that all I do be done in love, allow your peace abundantly flow from above.
Catherine Pulsifer, I Feel You Near

Father, give me grace today, that all I do or think or say, may be most pleasing in thy sight, and bring me peace when falls the night.
Charles E. Orr, Morning Prayer

To see the hand of God in the present, and to trust the future in the hand of God, is the secret of peace.
Paul Fleming, The Hand Of God

Dear restless heart, be still; for peace is God's own smile; His love can every wrong and sorrow reconcile.
Edith Willis Linn, Restless Heart

It is a peace that transcends all understanding; it is this peace, God, that I can now experience through your unconditional love.
Author Unknown

God's peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.
Author Unknown

Peace Found In Nature

Nature has a gentle way of slowing our thoughts and helping us notice the peace found in simple surroundings.

A garden can be a place of peace for me watching nature and flowers be.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Garden Can Be

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds.
Wes Adamson

The mountains, the mountains bring peace to the people.
Wilhelmina Stitch

A rainbow is a promise of...peace after pain.
Unknown, A Promise

Peace is seeing sunset and knowing who to thank.
Unknown

Trees give peace to the souls of men.
Nora Waln

And, just like life, the storm passes and the ocean is again calm and peaceful. The storms never last forever!
Catherine Pulsifer

The sound of a summer wind blowing through the trees can give you a sense of peace.
Catherine Pulsifer

But the air is mighty peaceful an' the scene is good to see, an' there's somethin' in October that stirs deep inside o' me.
Edgar A. Guest, October

Peace In Love, Family And Friendship

Loving relationships can give us comfort, security, and a peaceful place to rest our hearts.

Friendship curls around your heart and joy replaces gloom, it gives your life a sense of peace and calm.
Greta Zwaan, Around Your Heart

For those in our lives who fill us with peace and joy untold. Thank you, Lord, for these blessings both young and old.
Catherine Pulsifer, Thank You For Your Blessings Lord

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm

If peace and harmony through human regard, we desire to make; we will work if it be hard; for friendship's sake.
J. J. Thorne, Work For Friendship

Give me them, and the peace of mind, dearer than all. Home, home, sweet, sweet home.
John Howard Payne, Home, Sweet Home

The happy heart is the home of love, a solace for every woe; Let us cherish this gift from above as we seek our peace below.
John Imrie, The Happy Heart

In your arms, I found solace and peace, a love so deep that time could not cease.
Catherine Pulsifer, In Your Arms

May conflict never take your peace away.
Spring Wedding Blessing

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra Behn

Peace Through Forgiveness And Kindness

Forgiveness, patience, and kindness can ease conflict and help create greater peace in our lives and relationships.

Let us live in peace and harmony with filial love and compassion of pain. The pure in heart shall meet again.
J. J. Thorne, The Pure In Heart Will Meet Again

May we speak sweet words of love and peace and harmony.
Author Unknown

For in the heart of man, goodness resides, and peace is the choice that abides.
Catherine Pulsifer, Peace And Conflict

Forgiveness is the way to personal peace. It is performing mental surgery on yourself, probing deep within to remove hurts, grudges, and resentments.
Wilfred Peterson, The Art Of Forgiveness

Thanks...for the glory of growth, the peace of forgiving.
Christie Lund, Thanks

Temper governed and tongues withheld, keeps peace day by day.
J. J. Thorne, Govern The Temper

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Max Ehrmann

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Mackenzie Phillips

Rather than judge each other we should act more like brothers loving one another changes things and peace to the world it would bring.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Better Place

Peace Through Life's Struggles

Peace does not mean life will always be easy. These quotes remind us that calm and hope can return after difficult seasons.

You must believe that peace will follow strife.
Hazel Leas, Belief

May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.
Umair Siddiqui

With no hope within, I search for some peace but life in the world is deceiving......But now I wait only for God and His love.
John F. Zurn, Walking the Path of the Light

If storm clouds lower, if the sky be gray and lightnings rift the air; if stormy seas threaten to me engulf, dear Lord, I pray, grant me Thy peace!
Elizabeth Crannell, Grant Me Thy Peace

It's the way we set our sails, enables us to steer our course through hardship and distress, and reach the peaceful harbour of a well deserved success.
Patience Strong, Sailing Boat

Peace is the oil and steam of life. that turns the wheel to grind.
J. J. Thorne, Sweet Is Contentment

Life is a struggle for peace, a longing for rest, a hope for the battles to cease, a dream for the best.
Edgar A. Guest, The Struggle

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

Pull out the weeds, or make peace with the dandelions.
Frank Sonnenberg

Peace At Christmas And Special Times

Christmas, birthdays, and new beginnings offer meaningful opportunities to wish peace, joy, and hope for those we care about.

Christmas is a time of peace and joy, love for people, girls, and boys.
Catherine Pulsifer, What Is Christmas?

Bring peace by every path you go...leave blessings for the heart of man, like lovely footprints in the snow.
Esther Wood, Christmas Eve Song

May peace and plenty find you, may pain and grief depart.
Edgar A. Guest, A New Year's Toast

May the miracle of Christmas give you peace and be assured, my love for you will never cease.
Catherine Pulsifer, Love You, Mom

May the peace that the season brings take away the need for things.
Catherine Pulsifer, Love Of God

We hear, like those of olden time, the music of the Christmas Chime, telling its story again and again, of "Peace on earth, good will to men".
Grinnell Willis, The Christmas Chime

With youthful look and full of peace, having of life a twelve months' lease, the good New Year!
Caleb Davis Bradlee, The Old Year And The New

Joy, peace, hope, the words of Christmas, having these are, oh so precious.
Catherine Pulsifer, Joy, Hope & Peace

Birthday greetings now I send, full of gladness, love, and joy, may this year, my loving friend, bring thee peace without alloy.
John Imrie, A Birthday Wish

Peace In Our World

Peace grows when people choose understanding, goodwill, compassion, and respect instead of conflict.

The good that others can do, to live in harmony and leave no stain.
J. J. Thorne

They lived the horrors of war so all would have peace once more.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Debt of Gratitude

When everyone speaks words of peace, all thought of war will surely cease.
Unknown, Thoughts

Peace, the sweet glory of the world, faces a duty, too; death is her fate, leaves she one gate for war to enter through.
Edgar A. Guest, Preparedness

Thank you God, for peace in our land for the brave veterans who fought, who took a stand.
Catherine Pulsifer, Thank You God

Tomorrow...may bring peace and the beginning of human brotherhood to a troubled world.
Unknown, The Great Unknown

No nation can hope......for peace that does not cultivate the goodwill of other nations.
Roy L. Smith, No Nation Can Hope

Look at the roses saluting each other; look at the herds all at peace on the plain, man, and man only, makes war on his brother.
Joaquin Miller, Is It Worth While

Peace on the earth, good will to men, from heaven's all gracious King.
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

Peace, Rest And Eternal Hope

These quotes reflect on rest, heaven, and the hope of a deeper peace that reaches beyond the concerns of this life.

And soon will I turn to the west, west, where the sun sinks from view. To welcome the long, peaceful rest, after bidding all earth friends adieu.
Bernhart Paul Holst, Life

It is enough: earth's struggles now do cease, and Jesus calls us to heaven's perfect peace.
Edward Henry Bickersteth, Kept In Perfect Peace

...may our lives be uplifted and blest, and all through our souls come a peace and a rest.
Caleb Davis Bradlee, A Call To Worship

Thanks, God, for this holy peace...that whilst our earthly part must cease, as angels we shall shine.
Caleb Davis Bradlee, Eternal Life

For know we sure she safe abides where all is peace and rest.
Caleb Davis Bradlee, Our Mother

Gone now, we know, to greater peace, still with a God of love.
Caleb Davis Bradlee, Farewell, Dear Pastor

He bore our burden, he paid our debt, and ascended to heaven above, to prepare a home for his children, to sing praise, peace and love.
J. J. Thorne, The Savior's Love

In golden light, your soul finds peace, where earthly trials forever cease.
Catherine Pulsifer, In God's Embrace

Many a peaceful year, from God the Giver, then a glad welcome home.
Unknown, What Shall I Wish Thee, Dear?

Conclusion

Peace can be found in many places, within our hearts, through faith in God, in loving relationships, and in the quiet moments of everyday life. These quotes about peace remind us that even when life is difficult, we can choose kindness, forgiveness, hope, and understanding. May these words encourage you to seek peace within yourself and to share that peace with those around you.

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