Finding peace is something we all desire and look for. We want to be able to take a deep breath, relax and bask in the beautiful feeling of peace and tranquility. So we’ve rounded up the best finding peace quotes that short, inspirational, or meaningful. Perfect for when it time to start letting go.
This collection of perfect quotes can help guide you towards achieving inner peace.
Short Finding Peace Quotes
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ― Siddhārtha Gautama
“Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa
“Peace is always beautiful.” ― Walt Whitman
“Peace is liberty in tranquility.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.” ― Albert Camus
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.” ― Matthew Donnelly
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.” ― J. Muste
“Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow.” — River Phoenix
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” — Buddha
“We will know peace the day we truly know ourselves.” — Maxime Lagacé
“Peace is something we must all work for, every day, in every country.” — Ban Ki-moon
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ― Aristotle
“Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.” — Raheem DeVaughn
“If you have no inner peace of mind, it is futile to seek peace outside.” ― Debasish Mridha
“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.” ― Fran Lebowitz
“Peace begins within you; to create world peace, first create inner peace.” ― Debasish Mridha
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.” — Christian D. Larson
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ― Albert Einstein
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” ― Albert Schweitzer
“Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” — President Ronald Reagan
“World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power.” — Sri Chinmoy
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” ― Helen Keller
“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
“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 a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is’, it is a ‘becoming’.” — Haile Selassie
“Many people think excitement is happiness… But when you are excited, you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“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
“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
“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
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Be Happy Quotes, Stay Positive Quotes, Enjoy the Moment Quotes and Enjoy Life Quotes.
Find Your Inner Peace Quotes
“If you are not currently living a life of inner peace, then your thoughts must be wrong on some level.” ― Bohdi Sanders
“My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.” — Denzel Washington
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” — Dalai Lama
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness” — Robert Muller
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” — Mike Ditka
“While discovering the others, we get to know ourselves, find inner peace, and, so acquire poise and self-reliance to face up to the undisclosed or anonymous, out there.” ― Erik Pevernagie
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” — Gerald Jampolsky
“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.” — Peace Pilgrim
“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.” — Peace Pilgrim
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” — Malcolm X
“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
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ― Melody Beattie
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” — Wayne W. Dyer
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“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
“Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires.” — The Ancient Sage
“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
“If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” — Linda Evans
“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
“The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.”— Golda Meir
“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
Inspirational Peaceful Quotes
“Peace and love, that’s what we all need.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“I believe in peace and love, but I’m also very cynical. Cynical as the white stuff on the corner of old peoples mouths…. you still have no idea, the effect my cynicism can have.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That’s something that can discern the peace and love.” — Yayoi Kusama
“We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.” — Carmen Carrera
“We do not want riches, we want peace and love.” ― Red Cloud
“I play for peace and love.” — Vlade Divac
“I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.” — Red Cloud
“Every human longs for peace and love.” — Hiawatha
“I’m just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.” — Sherman Hemsley
“I’m not an idealist. I know we’re not going to be living in a world that’s peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.” — Michael Franti
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
“Forgiveness equals inner peace – more peaceful people equals more world peace.” — Richard Branson
“There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.” — Bruce Lee
“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
“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
“Peace brings with so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” —Estella Eliot
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” — John F. Kennedy
“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
“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
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” — Henry Miller
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.” — Dorothy Thompson
“Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“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 Chödrön
“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
“The more peace we bring into our lives, the more peace we bring into this world.” ― Todd Perelmuter
“Only peace can save the world and only love can create a liveable earth!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Life is a struggle but you have to learn everything wont go your way you have to create peace and be calm.” — Brianna McElwee
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” ― Amelia Earhart
“Peace is not the highest goal in life. It is the most fundamental requirement.” — Sadhguru
“Living in peace has transformative power!” ― Germany Kent
“It’s never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.” — Francois Hougaard
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.” — Victor Hugo
“Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.” — Thomas Kinkade
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.” — John Lennon
“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.” — Menachem Begin
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” — Dale Carnegie
“You have peace when you make it with yourself.” ― Mitch Albom
“When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” — Maha Ghosananda
“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” — Thomas á Kempis
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” — Peace Pilgrim
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” ― Marvin Gaye
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” ― Peter Deunov
“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
“Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay calm.” — Yves Behar
“The disappointments, the injustices, and the unfair treatment of others can never make me become a bitter person, far from it. It rather makes me become more and more generous and compassionate. Because down in my heart, am very much at peace with myself.” ― Nurudeen Ushawu
“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” — John Lewis
“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” — William Hazlitt
“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.” — Isaac of Nineveh
“I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.” — Magic Johnson
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.” — Nipsey Hussle
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.” — Antonio Brown
“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
“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
“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.” — Eckhart Tolle
“A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace – you feel as though you’re where you’re meant to be.” — Mike Yaconelli
“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.” — Alex Noble
Finding Peace of Mind Quotes
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” — Buddha
“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.” — Dada Vaswani
“You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.” — Stacy London
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” — George Michael
“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.” — Mark Victor Hansen
“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” — George Harrison
“Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.” — Bobby Davro
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.” — Christopher McCandless
“Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.” — Dalai Lama
“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” — Katrina Mayer
“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” — Zeno
“Trees give peace ot the souls of men.” – Nora Waln
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.” — Rachel Carson
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.” — Alice Walker
“So lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.” — Brooke Hampton
“Stay close to the serenity of a lake to meet your own peace of mind.” — Munia Khan
“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” — William Shakespeare
“Throw me to the mountains, I’ll be at peace as long as I will live.” — Shashank Rayal
“My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.” — Hamlin Garland
“There’s so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.” — Jim James
“There is always calm in the midst of chaos, love in the midst of hate, and hope in the midst of despair. You may not find them immediately, but have faith and hold tightly to your beliefs.” — Bernajoy Vaal
“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.” — Steve Martin
“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….” — Ritu Ghatourey
“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” — Unknown
“Love is the force that allows chaos and peace to coexist in harmony.” — James Grim
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” — Deepak Chopra
“I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.” — Tom Welling
“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don’t know if I would wish for world peace.” — Brendan Fraser
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.” — Emile M Cioran
“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.” — Saint Francis De Sales
“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.” — Philip Knight
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