Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Fowler, Gene

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Russell, Walter

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Howard, Vernon

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.

10.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kames, Lord

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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

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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise