Motivational Quotes

Conflict

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Conflict

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19]

Bible

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Bible

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

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

12.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ziglar, Zig

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Seneca

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nixon, Richard M.