26 Encouraging Words of Peace

Peace is defined as living in a state of freedom from disturbance, quietness, and tranquility. Peace can also be freedom from the cessation of war of violence. However, it seems as if everything you turn on the news, violence has taken over in some part of your local community, city, or around the world. However, the thought of seeking and living in a peaceful state is something many desire. The below words of peace quotes aim to identify a state of being that exists in a world without conflict or violence.

A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

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

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.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

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

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

We make war that we may live in peace.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

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

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The below infographic outlines the trends and statistics of world peace. One third of the world conflicts were in 1988 accounting for the most global deaths. The average war of the 1950’s claimed the lives of 10,000 each year. Now this number is down to less than 1,000. As times have progressed, global conflicts have lessened the impact of lost lives and international border’s reach.