Conflict Quotes
Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict.
Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.
Bare essentials. Like packing for paradise when you know you’re boarding the barge to hell.
We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate, ' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.
I violently dislike you, ' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.
Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence.
Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.
Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.
desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move
War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.
Regardless of the nature of the conflict, one basic rule translates into most Conflict Zone “Theatres” that doesn’t make it into Movie Theaters is that the food runs out faster than the bullets.
Good men are remembered for their friends. Great men are remembered for their enemies. The greatest men are those who turn their enemies into friends.
The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.
When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.
Those who are against you, just let them enjoy their time. Your time will come ten times better than theirs.
If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.
Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.
If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.
The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.
When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.