Matthew Ashford Quotes

I can work with anyone.

I play well with everybody.

I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

Living with eight other people teaches you what to give up and what to take from others, and you have to appreciate each other.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.

Can we all get along?

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

Let us have peace.