Quotes about Conflict
The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.
— John Maxwell
How do the people around you react to the sparks of life? Are they fire lighters who blow things up, or firefighters who calm things down?
— John Maxwell
Authors Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb indicate that people who fail on the job commonly cite "office politics" as the reason for their failures, but the reality is that what they call politics is often nothing more than regular interaction with other people.
— John Maxwell
The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they're wrong; it's because they don't know when to quit.
— John Maxwell
Bad attitudes must be addressed. You can be sure that they will always cause dissension, resentment, combativeness, and division on a team.
— John Maxwell
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history
— Henry Ward Beecher
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
— Mahatma Gandhi
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The heart responds to the conflict within a story.
— Donald Miller
You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.
— Donald Miller