"Fear = Face Everything And Respond"
Kerri Moon
Conflict Management Quotes
This is a collection of quotes that relate to the subject of conflict managment in the broadest sense! Click on one of the categories listed to the left to view a selection of related quotes.
Categories
- Anger
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Avoidance
- Benefits Of Conflict
- Blame
- Bullying
- Change
- Communication
- Compassion
- Competition
- Culture
- Emotional Literacy
- Facts
- Fear
- Feedback
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Happiness
- Intra-Personal Conflict
- Intuition
- Kindness
- Leadership
- Limits Of Litigation
- Listening
- Living Systems
- Love
- Mediation
- Negotiation
- Non Violence
- Peace
- Perception
- Power
- Problem Solving
- Resistance
- Sratagy
- Teams
- Trust
Worrying is using your imagination
"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want."
Abraham
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
"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 (platinum)
"Do unto others as they'd like done unto them."
Dr. Tony Alessandra - The Platinum Rule
Do unto others (gold)
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
The Golden Rule
Love is the only force
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Look fear in the face
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you must stop and look fear in the face."
Eleanor Roosevelt
The ability to influence decisions
"Power is the ability to influence the decisions of others."
Roger Fisher
Does this path have heart?
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
"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted."
Lao Tse
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred
"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
"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."
William Shakespeare
If you judge people
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
When you try to push your rightness toward another who disagrees
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
Where to look next
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."
- Jonas Salk
The minute you don't want power
“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
What the enemy thinks you have
“Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
Saul Alinsky
If we manage conflict constructively
“If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.”
Kenneth Kaye
When conflict becomes a win-lose
“When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.”
Thomas Crum
To make conflict unnecessary
“The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.”
Sun Tzu
Change means movement
“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.”
Saul Alinsky
Work on developing a cooperative relationship
“Work on developing a cooperative relationship, so when conflict comes, you believe you are allies.”
Dean Tjosvold
Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy
“Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.”
Thomas Crum
When we are being compassionate
"When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgment."
- Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
The activity of influencing people to cooperate
"Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desireable."
- Ordway Tead
The gift of listening
"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
At the core of all anger
"At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled."
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Kindness is a language
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
Joy lies in the fight
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"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
The most beautiful form of love
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
- Robert Muller
I will meet you there
"Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."
- Rumi
Everything that irritates us about others
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung
But you can control your attitude
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
Brian Tracy
Forgiveness does not change the past
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Paul Boese
Sensitivity requires a willingness to listen
"Sensitivity to others is no trivial skill; rather, it is a truly precious human ability. But it isn't complex: it requires receptiveness to other people and a willingness to listen."
James Kouzes and Barry Posner
To neither suppress our feelings nor be caught by them
"To neither suppress our feelings nor be caught by them, but to understand them-that is the art."
Jack Kornfield
They will never forget how you made them feel
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
Carl W. Buechner
A good listener
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
Wilson Mizner
If we have no peace
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa
30% of a typical managers time
Up to 30% of a typical managers time is spent dealing with conflict.
Thomas, K and Schmidt, W. (1976)
Peace is not the absence of conflict
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict --
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
Dorothy Thompson
The Facilitation of Negotiation
Mediation is the facilitation of negotiation.
Norman R. Page
Flow with whatever is happening
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
Chuang Tzu
Deep listening from the heart
"Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication. Speaking from the heart is the other half."
Sara Paddison
Recall what you were worrying about one year ago
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."
E. Joseph Cossman
