Conflict Management Quotes

“Consensus means that people comprehend the final decision, have committed themselves to executing the chosen course of action, feel a sense of collective ownership about the plan, and are willing to cooperate with others during the implementation effort.”

Michael Roberto

"The better able team members are to engage, speak, listen, hear, interpret, and respond constructively, the more likely their teams are to leverage conflict rather than be leveled by it”

Runde and Flanagan

"We know from our experience that it is easier to develop trust in another person or in a group if we believe that we can disagree, and we will not be abandoned or hurt for our differences. It is difficult to trust those who deny us the right to be ourselves." Susan Wheelan

"Trusting someone else can involve gigantic risks, and it leads to the even more challenging task of learning to trust yourself.”

Stephen Nachmanovitch

“The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.” Shakti Gawain

“Only unconditional surrender leads to real emptiness, and from that place of emptiness I can be prolific and free.” Stephen Nachmanovitch

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow; tomorrow will look after itself."

The Bible

"Patience is the key to paradise."

Turkish Proverb

"The highest form of wisdom is kindness."

The Talmud

"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."

Albert Camus

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solutoin comes to you and you don't know how or why."

Albert Einstien

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Zen Proverb

"Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes."

The Upanishads

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

Desiderius Erasmus

"We should have much peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others."

Thomas a' Kempis

"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."

Paul Tillich

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength."

A.J. Cronin

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

Ralf Waldo Emerson

"Our very life depends on everything's recurring til we answer from within."

Robert Frost

"If one throws salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places."

Latin Proverb

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

Swedish proverb

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

Dalai Lama

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. 
If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
Bhagavad-Gita

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. 
Udana

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. 
That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
The Talmud

Your behavior is based upon your feelings, which are based on your thoughts.  So the thing to work on is not to change your behavior, but those things inside of your consciousness that we call thoughts.  Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behavior will flow automatically.  Believe it, and you will see it!
Wayne Dyer

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.
Jim Rohn

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it.  I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
Theodore Roosevelt

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

"Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason."

Carl Jung

"Fear = Face Everything And Respond"

Kerri Moon

"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want."

Abraham

"Fear makes the wolf bigger."

German Proverb

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson (I have also seen this quote attributed to Nelson Mandela)

"Do unto others as they'd like done unto them."
Dr. Tony Alessandra - The Platinum Rule

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
The Golden Rule

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you must stop and look fear in the face." 

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Power is the ability to influence the decisions of others." 

Roger Fisher

All paths are the same; they lead nowhere.  The question you must ask yourself is "Does this path have heart?" 

Don Juan to Carlos Casteneda

"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted."

Lao Tse

"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred; this is the law eternal."

Buddha

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."

William Shakespeare

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

James Joyce

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

Mother Teresa

Even in your rightness about a subject, when you try to push your rightness toward another who disagrees, no matter how right you are, it causes more pushing against. In other words, it isn't until you stop pushing that any real allowing of what you want can take place.

Abraham

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."

- Jonas Salk

“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
Ram Dass

“Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
Saul Alinsky

“If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.” 

 Kenneth Kaye