CONFRONTATION QUOTES

quotations about confrontation

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

BARBARA DELINSKY

Blueprints


The more one confronts everything, the more interesting and fruitful becomes the path to individution.

ADOLF GUGGENBHUHL

Marriage: Dead or Alive


Confrontation is like fire or water. Properly used, it can save your life. It can also destroy.

JOHN HOOVER & ROGER P. DISILVESTRO

The Art of Constructive Confrontation


When the idea of compromise--i.e., that a relationship is important enough to warrant seeking to avoid confrontation, even if some concession is necessary--is weak, the likelihood of confrontation is increased.

LAWRENCE E. HARRISON

Underdevelopment is a State of Mind: The Latin American Case


In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

H. JACKSON BROWN

A Father's Book of Wisdom


There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays


Failure to confront, when confrontation is needed, permits the continuation of self-defeating or unreasonable behavior and inadvertently implies support for such behavior.

A.W. TAMMINEN & M.H. SMABY

"Helping counselors learn to confront", Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1981


Now, I have to admit, confrontation isn't always something that I enjoy. But I have learned over the years to say what has to be said and face what has to be faced. Many choose to live in a perpetual state of denial rather than do the hard work that is needed to confront issues, weaknesses, and inconsistencies in themselves and others.

T.D. JAKES

Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits


I guess we've been avoiding total honesty
But we can't leave confrontation on the shelf
Though I know that love brought us together
In finding one another I almost lost myself.

PETER, PAUL & MARY

"I Need Me to Be for Me"


You can't change what you refuse to confront.

ANONYMOUS


Confrontation isn't my bag. It's something I learned from the Old Man. Except for the blaring music, quiet reigned in my boyhood home, right up to the point where Dad walked into the kitchen one afternoon towards the end of my high school years and announced that my mother had left him. I can't say I blamed her, though maybe I did. He didn't seem the least bit upset. After that, it was eve quieter.

D. LUFKIN

Bass Desires: A Novel About Finding the Groove


Confrontation is not a verbal hit-and-run; rather, it is used constructively to bring about change.

DONALD COLLINS

An Introduction to Family Social Work


Stand up, speak out, strike back
They don't know what they started
Confrontation

OTEP

"Confrontation"


If you are fearful of confronting others, try approaching instead. What's the difference? When you confront, there is usually some expectation that conflict will follow. Approaching is not like this. Approaching is loving and calm, spares others from feeling judged, shares information in a gentle way, and invites conversation.

JASON B. FISCHER

The Two Truths about Love: The Art and Wisdom of Extraordinary Relationships


Metaphorically speaking, the art of good confrontation is to help the client to swallow "bad medicine" voluntarily, so that they can incorporate it into their bodily system and digest it.

KATHRYN & DAVID GELDARD

Personal Counseling Skills: An Integrative Approach


All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives.

TONY BLAUER

Quotations for Martial Artists


Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

DALE PARTRIDGE

attributed, Parenting with Pieces


Is it because the confrontation never quite takes place that I take such lasting pleasure in it?

JACQUES DERRIDA

Limited Inc


Rehearse what you are going to say to the person when you confront them. Go through your key points, bearing in mind that the aim is to outline the situation from your perspective, giving concrete examples of recent incidents. Be absolutely clear about what you want. Envisage how you might resolve the conflict in a way that is agreeable to both sides.

MICHAEL WEST

Motivate Teams, Maximize Success: Effective Strategies for Realizing Your Goals


Confrontation is a loaded word; it carries such negative connotations of 'being told off', of angry conflicts and so on that a number of people, therapists included, shrink inside when even the word is mentioned. In spite of all of this, sensitive and well-timed confrontation remains a potent therapeutic method.

MARK WIDDOWSON

Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques