There are a lot of quotes out there about arguing. Some make it sound like it’s the worst thing you can do, while others seem to think that it’s a necessary part of life. So, which is it? Is arguing good or bad? As entrepreneurs, we need to be able to have healthy arguments with our team members, clients, and partners. And we need to be able to do so in a way that doesn’t damage our relationships or our business. This compilation of quotes will help you do just that.

1. Prosperity makes few friends. — Vauvenargues
2. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Vauvenargues
3. It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos — for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.
4. When I didn’t argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. — Saul Bellow
5. You can’t argue with math, Carter. You’ll always lose. — Nora Roberts
6. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. — Norman Mailer
7. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. — Voltaire
8. One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. — Sam Harris
9. Generosity gives assistance rather than advice. — Vauvenargues
10. First of all, Vince McMahon doesn’t argue–he tells you! — Ric Flair
11. The Greens have every right to run, that’s what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent. — Peter Camejo
12. There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. — Vauvenargues
13. Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back — Ram Mohan Roy
14. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. — Voltaire
15. Thats one reason i argued, obviously without success to the president, that he not take this route. — Mitch Mcconnell
16. It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us. — Terence McKenna
17. Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. — Mark Twain
18. It’s progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
19. Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good. This — Martin E.P. Seligman
20. It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears. — Plutarch
21. I don’t deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. — William Hague
22. It’s absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual. — Peter Garrett
23. All men are born truthful and die liars. — Vauvenargues
24. I’m a very serious person, but I don’t take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue. — Steve Austin
25. Sometimes, Freud argued, people need a history enema. — Tom Keneally, The Daughters of Mars
26. To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. — Saki, Reginald
27. Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing–you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust. — Nicholas Sparks
28. It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn’t need to argue for the truth. You could see it. — Max Barry, Lexicon
29. I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me. — Winston Churchill
30. All men are born truthful and die liars. — Vauvenargues
31. You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression. — Rajneesh
32. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
33. ‘dad, is she serious?”John shrugged. ”I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn’t feed me. So i dont argue with your mama.’ — Molly McAdams, From Ashes
34. ‘you’re insane!””I won’t argue that point.’ — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
35. They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned. — Ursula K. Le Guin
36. You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression. — Rajneesh
37. It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. — Salman Rushdie
38. The Greens have every right to run, that’s what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent. — Peter Camejo
39. The writer Richard Manning has argued that ‘the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. — Phillip Connors
40. Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can’t cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue? — Mark Twain
41. Men argue. Nature acts. — Voltaire
42. I thought it was uncomfortable, when I was younger, watching my own parents argue. Turns out, watching other people’s parents do it is exponentially more awkward — Val Emmich
43. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Vauvenargues
44. Action makes more fortunes than caution. — Vauvenargues
45. Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can’t argue with a guy like that. — Terrell Owens
46. He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.I don’t want to lose him, another part argues.I don’t know which part to believe. — Veronica Roth, Allegiant
47. Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. — Vauvenargues
48. If we accomplish both those feats, it would be hard to argue not, but we’ll talk about that in june. — Stephen Curry
49. ‘dad, is she serious?”John shrugged. ”I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn’t feed me. So i dont argue with your mama.’ — Molly McAdams, From Ashes
50. More are taken in by hope than by cunning. — Marquis de Vauvenargues