Defusing Conflict Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves. — Richard Paul Evans

if I was just the consolation prize. — Corinne Michaels

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey. — Simon Sinek

Been to yesterdays,
lived through todays.
Looking on toward tomorrows -
new characters, new plays.
The whys of life change,
and so do ways,
new scenery is built,
to fill an empty stage. — Lee Bennett Hopkins

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Happy World Peace Day! (November 17th) Here is how you can get involved:
a. Engage in dialogue with someone from a different country or nationality than your own.
b. Let go of the past and renounce vendettas, denounce revenge, and live for the future.
c. Contemplate your life and find the areas that you are in conflict. Work towards solving the conflicts by defusing them through communication or dis-engaging so that the conflicts whither away. Understand the conflict from the viewpoint of your opponent and do not think of winning. Think of co-existing.
d. Close your eyes and breath deeply while clearing your mind of all your troubles. Repeat as needed.
e. Volunteer for a peace organization
f. Read a book on conflict resolution — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life. — Hermann Hesse

We travel in Duke stuff ... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. — Mike Krzyzewski

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

And I implore those who hide behind the high sounding phrase called tradition, to realise that they throw this word around only to mask their unwillingness to change
- Mahesh Bhatt — Mahesh Bhatt

For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official. — Pauline Baird Jones

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer. — Israelmore Ayivor