Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Russell, Walter

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Fowler, Gene

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

10.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

23.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Roux, Joseph

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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