Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Seabury, David

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Seneca

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Pascal, Blaise

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Gatty, Margaret

30.

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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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 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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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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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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 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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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 war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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