Motivational Quotes

Conflict

We are the prisoners of ideas.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Russell, Walter

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Bible

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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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 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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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