Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

Casa, Giovani della

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Russell, Walter

12.

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.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

15.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

17.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Bible

20.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

21.

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

22.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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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

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

26.

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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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 war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

31.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

32.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Gatty, Margaret

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roux, Joseph

41.

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

Troward, Thomas

44.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Howard, Vernon