Quotes about Concord

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Unity is not uniformity; unity is oneness of purpose.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

And therefore God created only one single man, not, certainly, that he might be a solitary bereft of all society, but that by this means the unity of society and the bond of concord might be more effectually commended to him, men being bound together not only by similarity of nature, but by family affection. And indeed He did not even create the woman that was to be given him as his wife, as he created the man, but created her out of the man, that the whole human race might derive from one man.

And I saw that all things did harmonize, not with their places only, but with their seasons.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess of Concord, i.e. than I import into it.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end; Not wedlock-treachery.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of them as expressing their love, their joy, and the inward concord and harmony and spiritual beauty of their souls by sweetly singing to each other.

Where there is unity there is always victory.