Quotes About Conflict

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“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” - Wiliam James

“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” - Max Lucado

"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.” - E. M. Kelly

“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” - Norman Schwartzkopf

“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.” - Garth Brooks

"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.” - Andrew Bernstein

“So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.” - Sun Tzu

“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” - M. Esther Harding

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.” - John Dewey

“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

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” - Marian Wright Edleman