George Matthew Adams Quotes

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.