Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Seneca

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bible

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Kennedy, John F.

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter