Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.
It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
All intellectual superiority is the fruit of active effort.
Progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.
Peace is not something to say but something to do.
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.
Communication works for those who work at it.
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.
Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
