Serenity Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old serenity quotes, serenity sayings, and serenity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. Paul Brunton
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi
You can't calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. Timber Hawkeye
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. Johnny Miller
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. Bohdi Sanders
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. Lao Tzu
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. unknown
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. Cyril Connolly
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Kahlil Gibran
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. Simone Weil
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation. Stephen C. Paul
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. Swami Rama
Clarity brings Serenity. Teodomila
You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. Charles H. Spurgeon
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Charlotte Bronte
The fruit of silence is tranquillity. Arabian Proverb
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. Marcus Antoninus Aurelius
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Thomas Hobbes
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the geniune within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Marian Wright Edelman
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. St. Francis of Assisi
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson