42 Masterful Quotes to Inspire Healthier Relationships

Conflict is part of our working life and is often used as a way to work out our differences and reach a conclusion. It’s usually the approach you take that tends to exacerbate the issues and cause undue stress. How you deal with conflict reveals your character.

1. The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions — Claude Lvi-Strauss
2. A crisis is a turning point — Anne Lindthorst
3. Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional — Max Lucade
4. Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind — Hamilton Mabie
5. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way — AJ Muste
6. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment — Dorothy Nevill
7. The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them — Ralph Nichols
8. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
9. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong — Joseph Chilton Pearce
10. A man convinced against his will”¦is not convinced — Laurence J. Peter
11. My problem is I say what I’m thinking before I think what I’m saying — Laurence J. Peter
12. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of emotion  –  Robert Quillen
13. You can’t influence somebody when you’re judging them — Tony Robbins
14. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side — Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
15. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard — Carl Rogers
16. If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable— Mr. Rogers
17. Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today — Will Rogers
18. The best way to persuade people is with your ears,  by listening to them  — Dean Rusk
19. The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution — Bertrand Russell
20. It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye — Antoine de Saint-Exupry
21. Human beings love to be right. When a person is willing to give up being right, a whole world of possibilities opens up — Pete Salmansohn
22. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise — David J. Schwartz
23. Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully
24. Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? — Shirdi Sai Baba
25. When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, “What’s happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?” — June Singer
26. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you — John E. Southard
27. It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it — Spanish Proverb
28. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn— Source unknown
29. Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions — Earl Gray Stevens
30. Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it — Charles Swindoll
31. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow — Carol Tavris
32. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict—alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence — Dorothy Thompson
33. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness — James Thurber
34. A good manager doesn’t try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you’re the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong,  that’s healthy — Robert Townsend
35. Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use — Mark Twain
36. People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes — Abigail VanBuren
37. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any — Alice Walker
38. It isn’t a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else — Anthony Weston
39. I’ve found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior — Margaret Wheatley
40. I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum — Frances Willard
41. When you’re at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backward — Source unknown

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