Healthy Conflict Quotes

#1. The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.

Lysa TerKeurst

#2. Ironically, most leaders of meetings go out of their way to eliminate or minimize drama and avoid the healthy conflict that results from it. Which only drains the interest of employees.

Patrick Lencioni

#3. I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood.

Timur Vermes

#4. Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.

Henry Cloud

#5. Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#6. It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

Sinead O'Connor

#7. Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#8. The key lies in finding the delicious flavorings in one's life, no matter how fancy your blue jeans may or may not be.

Nick Offerman

#9. The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

Robert Townsend

#11. Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

Kofi Annan

#12. Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

John C. Maxwell

#13. Growing healthy relationships is learning how to communicate, how to do conflict well, how to apologize and forgive, and how to own up to your mistakes. It's establishing healthy boundaries and knowing when to say no.

Lisa Anderson

#14. I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

Bill Maris

#15. In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#16. Range Rovers are the greenest cars on the road.

Peter Hargreaves

#17. He hadn't spent a lifetime pushing women away only to be taken down by a piece of pumpkin pie.

Kele Moon

#18. What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Dick Gephardt

#19. Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Timothy Keller

#20. You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

Suzette Boon

#21. Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#22. All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc