Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Bible

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Casa, Giovani della

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Seneca

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Russell, Walter

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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