If You Avoid Conflict Quotes

#1. If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

Cheryl Richardson

#2. We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

Richard Branson

#3. Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'

Robin Morgan

#4. Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Richard A. Falk

#5. I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

Henry A. Kissinger

#6. When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. You're not a secretary; you're a poet. What makes you think your life is going to be uncomplicated? What makes you think you can avoid all conflict? What makes you think you can avoid pain? Or passion? There's something to be said for passion. Can't you ever allow yourself and forgive yourself?

Erica Jong

#8. 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

#9. One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

Donald Miller

#10. I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

Robin Lord Taylor

#11. Kindness is not "niceness." Kindness does not avoid conflict; kindness engages conflict, but with a goal of reconciliation.

Russell D. Moore

#12. Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Warren G. Bennis

#13. All lies fall somewhere into these five categories. These are to: avoid hurting someone; avoid feeling guilt or shame; avoid conflict and stress (minor to major); gain a social advantage; avoid a significant loss.

Caesar Lincoln

#14. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.

Dalai Lama

#15. Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.

Louis L'Amour

#16. People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary

Patrick Lencioni