Conflict Management Quotes: Intra-Personal Conflict

“Work on developing a cooperative relationship, so when conflict comes, you believe you are allies.”
Dean Tjosvold

"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

“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”

Thomas a Kempis

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
Stephen Covey

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
Walt Kelly

"You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."

Rwandan Proverb

“In our society, we don’t naturally look inside ourselves for the source of conflict, we look outside.”
Theodore Dobson

“All polishing is done with friction.”
Mary Parker Follet
ADR Pioneer

“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
Garth Brooks

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)

Conflict Management Quotes