Conflict Engagement Quotes

The President [FDR] has been scheming for years to involve us in war.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

Mr. President, Lieutenant—General Scott, Messieurs Secretaries, when shall the bayonets flash to the ‘Forward’ of the Centurion of the conquering line?... On to Richmond, then is the voice of the people… Again, we repeat, On to Richmond!

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

I remember being in a situation where everybody, as much as they loved seeing Jerry Lawler's gimmick, they loved to hate him. That's one of the things I learned early on, that if you're going to be in a situation where you're taking on a dominant competitor, you have to get to the point where you love to be hated, if that is what is required.

Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we've had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he's saying, No, we're going to cut that back to only one conflict.

Over time, many CEOs realize that being able to quickly and effectively confront conflict in their company is a leadership opportunity because people's respect often rises and falls on whether their leader deals with conflict head on or avoids dealing with it.

It is hazardous to engage an enemy who longs rather for battle than for victory.

Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

I'm an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.

I came here to do a job, and my job is to hurt people.

I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.

I never turn down fights. Anybody who follows my career knows that I accept fights.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

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