Quotes about Diplomacy

The words of an ambassador are always other-centered. Consider the problem ("according to their needs")

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.

Recordemos el viejo proverbio: "Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera".

En otras palabras: no hay que discutir con el cliente o con el cónyuge o con el adversario. No le diga que se equivoca, no lo haga enojar; utilice un poco de tacto, de diplomacia.

He never raised his voice, even in the midst of volatile situations.

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.