Josh McDowell Quotes

My father passed on one important piece of relationship advice before he died. He said son, in a relationship you can either be right or you can be happy. You'll soon find out that you don't care that much about being right.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I've learned It 's better to address conflicts head on and then move on.

Normally when you meet a person you don't like, you might have words with them, but then you walk away. When you're filming a show, you can't walk away.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and you act like it's my fault but it's not my fault for being quiet or your fault for being a know-it-all. It's not your problem or my problem; it's their problem. They're the demented ones, not us, so don't take it out on me, because the only thing that holds things together for me is having someone else on the Not Demented Team.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

There's conflict in every story.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.