Quotes About Conciliation

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

I'm about unity.

After some of the most contentious years in state government, I've made it clear that I will, and can, work with anyone to get things done.

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

I'm not interested in more political or cultural combat.

I don't want to destroy anybody. And I don't want war, either. I want the world to hold together. Is that so bad?

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Buddha said: 'Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,' and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.

As wise old Ben Franklin used to say:   If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Wouldn't you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and make the other person listen attentively? Yes? All right. Here it is: "I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.

Buda dijo: El odio nunca es vencido por el odio sino por el amor, y un malentendido no termina nunca gracias una discusión sino gracias al tacto, la diplomacia, la conciliación, y un sincero deseo de apreciar el punto de vista de los demás.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

He not only fumbled badly in his attempts at impromptu oratory en route to the capital, but worst of all, ended his journey in the dead of night, embarrassingly fearful for his safety, after encouraging unseemly partisan demonstrations in friendly Northern cities. He was too conspicuous. He was too sequestered. He was too careless. He was too calculating. He was too conciliatory. He was too coercive. He was too sloppy.

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

The words of an ambassador are always other-centered. Consider the problem ("according to their needs")

They're both right!

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.