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

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

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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.

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

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Seabury, David

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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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 archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Gatty, Margaret

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