Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fowler, Gene

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bible

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

Seabury, David

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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]

Bible

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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

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roux, Joseph

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The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

Arnold, Thurman W.

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Bhagavad Gita

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