Israel Adesanya Quotes

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Liberalism: To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

In the fight, we are fighters, but after, we have respect for each other.

War would end if the dead could return.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.