Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

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

Bible

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.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Kames, Lord

10.

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

Howard, Vernon

11.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

16.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

19.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

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

Gatty, Margaret

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Mckay, David O.

23.

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

Seabury, David

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

26.

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

Howard, Vernon

27.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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.

32.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Casa, Giovani della

33.

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

34.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

36.

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

37.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

38.

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

39.

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

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.