50 Conflict Quotes and Disagreement Sayings – Inspire Quotes
Conflict Quotes
“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.” —Hillaire Belloc
“Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.” —Tony Blair
“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.” —William S. Burroughs
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.” —D. H. Lawrence
“Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.” —Tony Blair
“I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” —Oprah Winfrey
“You can’t divorce religious belief and public service I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.” —Jimmy Carter
“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.” —Richard M. Nixon
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” —Lao Tzu
Famous Conflict Quotes
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” —Charlie Chaplin
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.” —Simone Weil
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.” —Hillaire Belloc
Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.” —Joe Biden
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” —Ronald Reagan
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” —Winston Churchill
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.” —Tony Blair
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.” —Richard M. Nixon
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” —William James
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.” —Tony Blair
Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.” —Donald Trump
Family Conflict Quotes and Sayings
“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.” —Emma Thompson
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” —William James
“Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is not the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.” —Harriet B. Braiker
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” —Lao Tzu
Quotes On Resolving Conflict At Work
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.” —Lynn Johnston
“If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.” —Kenneth Kaye
“Conflict can destroy a team which hasn’t spent time learning to deal with it.” —Thomas Isgar
“When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.” —Thomas Crum
“Love is the only force capable of tranforming an enemy into a friend.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A willingness to trust and openly listen to alternative ideas and views is essential for collaboration to be successful.” —Dale Eilerman
“In conflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point.” —Thomas Crum
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” —Winston Churchill
“People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou
“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.” —Howard Baker
“Whever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationshp and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” —William James
“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
Conflict Quotes and Sayings
“Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it.”
“Where there is power, there is resistance.” —Michel Foucault
“To live is to war with trolls.” —Henrik Ibsen
“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” —Max Lucade
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” —M. Esther Harding
“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” —Jonathan Kozel
“Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom.” —Proverbs 13:10
“You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.” —Diana, Princess of Wales
“We cannot really think in one way and act in another.” —Thomas Troward
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.” —Demosthenes
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” —John Steinbeck
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” —Prov.15:1
“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.” —Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“It’s time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.” —Jesse Jackson
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” —Baruch Spinoza
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” —Shannon L. Alder
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.” —Garth Brooks
“There’s not one person in this crowd who’s gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.” —Howard Dean
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” —Edward Gibbon
“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.” —Bertolt Brecht
“Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.” —Stephen Moyer
“If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.” —John F. Kennedy
“I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” —2 Timothy 4:7
“Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few.” —Winston Churchill
“The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.” —E. M. Kelly
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them? What rights are those that dare not resist for them?” —Alfred Tennyson
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.” —Albert Low
“I don’t believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.” —Thor Heyerdahl
“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.” —John Dewey
“It takes two to keep the Marriage Vow. It takes two to have Agreement. It takes two to resolve conflict. Bottom line? Both of you need to want to work it out.” —Tabitha M.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.” —Horace Mann
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” —Marian Wright Edelman
“Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.” —Billy Graham
“Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.” —Karl Jaspers
“So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.”
“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ”You work and toil and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.”
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” —Thomas Paine