Motivational Quotes

Conflict

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7]

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Best Quotes about Conflict

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Collier, Robert

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Kennedy, John F.

A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.

Bhagavad Gita

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Roux, Joseph

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Ziglar, Zig

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

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Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.

Perls, Frederick Salomon

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Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable,

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

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It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Wilder, Thornton

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The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Walsh, William T.

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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Howard, Vernon

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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

Hopkins, Tom

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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Howard, Vernon

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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Seneca

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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Anderson, Marian

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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Pascal, Blaise

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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Russell, Walter

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. [Proverbs 13:10]

Bible

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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Gatty, Margaret

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I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7]

Bible

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Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

Low, Albert

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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

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I'm not a combative person.My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Grant, Alistair

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The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Moustakas, Clark

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This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

Ornstein, Robert E.

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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Jung, Carl

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We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Troward, Thomas