Motivational Quotes

Conflict

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]

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Best Quotes about Conflict

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

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.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it should do, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Kiley, John Cantwell

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

Roux, Joseph

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19]

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The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Mckay, David O.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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What people need and what they want may be very different.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Howard, Vernon

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

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bhagavad Gita

42.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.