Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

13.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

15.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

17.

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

Roux, Joseph

18.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Bible

24.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

27.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

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

Russell, Walter

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

33.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Seneca

39.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

40.

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

41.

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

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

45.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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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