Quotes about Conflict

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle. —PROVERBS 18:19

But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things to come, and carnal sense, are such strangers one to another; therefore it is, that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that distance is so continued between the second.

The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.

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?

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.

The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they're wrong; it's because they don't know when to quit.

Bad attitudes must be addressed. You can be sure that they will always cause dissension, resentment, combativeness, and division on a team.

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

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.