He who gainsa

He who gainsa
He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.
  

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Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.
We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.
It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.
Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.