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.
- The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions — Claude Lvi-Strauss
- A crisis is a turning point — Anne Lindthorst
- Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional — Max Lucade
- Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind — Hamilton Mabie
- There is no way to peace. Peace is the way — AJ Muste
- 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
- 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
- The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong — Joseph Chilton Pearce
- A man convinced against his will”¦is not convinced — Laurence J. Peter
- My problem is I say what I’m thinking before I think what I’m saying — Laurence J. Peter
- Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of emotion – Robert Quillen
- You can’t influence somebody when you’re judging them — Tony Robbins
- Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side — Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
- 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
- If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable— Mr. Rogers
- Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today — Will Rogers
- The best way to persuade people is with your ears, by listening to them — Dean Rusk
- The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution — Bertrand Russell
- It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye — Antoine de Saint-Exupry
- 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
- 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
- Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully
- Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? — Shirdi Sai Baba
- 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
- The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you — John E. Southard
- It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it — Spanish Proverb
- The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn— Source unknown
- Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions — Earl Gray Stevens
- Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it — Charles Swindoll
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow — Carol Tavris
- 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
- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness — James Thurber
- 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
- Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use — Mark Twain
- People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes — Abigail VanBuren
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any — Alice Walker
- It isn’t a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else — Anthony Weston
- 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
- I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum — Frances Willard
- When you’re at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backward — Source unknown
