Quotes About Conflict

[TalkLady]

“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.” - Wiliam James

“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” - Max Lucado

"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.” - E. M. Kelly

“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” - Norman Schwartzkopf

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

"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.” - Andrew Bernstein

“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.” - Sun Tzu

“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” - M. Esther Harding

“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

“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

“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 Edleman

[Scott Hutchinson]

Very Good quotes.

[RevDWW]

Discretion is the better part of valor!

[TalkLady]

Originally Posted by RevDWW

Discretion is the better part of valor!

You know almost invariably we hear this passage quoted as above; but you have it reversed, RevDWW.

However, this is the passage from Henry the Fourth, Part I, Act 5, Scene 4:

"To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life." - William Shakespeare

Falstaff's phrase elegantly redeems a cowardly act. The bragging knight has just risen from his feigned death. He had played the corpse in order to escape real death at the hands of a Scotsman hostile to Henry the IV....He was claiming that abstractions like "honor" and "valor" will get you nothing once you're dead.

Falstaff excuses his counterfeiting as the kind of "discretion" that keeps a man from foolishly doing things like getting himself killed....i.e. running into swords in order to make himself a hero.

To Ole Falstaff, if counterfeiting keeps you alive...Well then, maybe it's NOT counterfeiting at all.....but an authentic "image of life"....or maybe it's just "magic hair"...or whatever mechanism is needed to keep the status quo alive and breathing without life support.

Falstaff confuses image with "reality"........but it is common that he is to be "forgiven/excused/accepted" ....As far as he's concerned, "valor" is an image, too, and you've got to stay alive in order to find more opportunities to cultivate that image.

End of Shakespeare 101 Lesson........Can you see it's application?

[RevDWW]

Originally Posted by TalkLady

You know almost invariably we hear this passage quoted as above; but you have it reversed, RevDWW.

However, this is the passage from Henry the Fourth, Part I, Act 5, Scene 4:

"To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life." - William Shakespeare

Falstaff's phrase elegantly redeems a cowardly act. The bragging knight has just risen from his feigned death. He had played the corpse in order to escape real death at the hands of a Scotsman hostile to Henry the IV....He was claiming that abstractions like "honor" and "valor" will get you nothing once you're dead.

Falstaff excuses his counterfeiting as the kind of "discretion" that keeps a man from foolishly doing things like getting himself killed....i.e. running into swords in order to make himself a hero.

To Ole Falstaff, if counterfeiting keeps you alive...Well then, maybe it's NOT counterfeiting at all.....but an authentic "image of life"....or maybe it's just "magic hair"...or whatever mechanism is needed to keep the status quo alive and breathing without life support.

Falstaff confuses image with "reality"........but it is common that he is to be "forgiven/excused/accepted" ....As far as he's concerned, "valor" is an image, too, and you've got to stay alive in order to find more opportunities to cultivate that image.

End of Shakespeare 101 Lesson........Can you see it's application?

Yes, I knew this. But a good lesson none the less. Still King David played the crazy man to escape his enemies and death.......

I guess I'd have to say that a bit of discreation in forum life would not be a bad thing.

Remember "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day"

[Evang.Benincasa]

"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.” - E. M. Kelly

Nice job TalkLady this is a great quote. Thank you!