Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

Better bow than break.

People must lean the strategies of non-violence as a skill for use in their homes, their work and in making social change….Violence is an inarticulate language.

This is a breath of fresh air for our region—solving a political problem without resorting to violence …

There is never any military solution to any problem. Even when you have total victory you still have to go in and talk to people.

Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.

I wanted to demonstrate that Deathstroke does not need to solve every problem with his fists.

Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.

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