Motivational Quotes

Conflict

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Kames, Lord

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

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

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

10.

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

11.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Troward, Thomas

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

22.

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

Ziglar, Zig

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Howard, Vernon

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Pascal, Blaise

28.

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

Russell, Walter

29.

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.

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

35.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

38.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

39.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

40.

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

Casa, Giovani della

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Roux, Joseph

47.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

48.

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.