Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Kames, Lord

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

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Walter

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

14.

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

Bhagavad Gita

19.

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

Bible

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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Howard, Vernon

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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