Conflict Management Quotes

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

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

When conflict becomes a win-lose

“When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.”

 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.

I will meet you there

"Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."

- Rumi

No one to blame

"Take your life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."
Erica Jong

To belittle is to be little.

"To belittle is to be little."
Unknown

Benchmarking emotional management

"A benchmark of emotional management and responsibility is the realization that our past can no longer be blamed for our actions in the present."
Doc Childe and Howard Martin

Tranquility of heart

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame."

Thomas á Kempis