Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

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

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Mckay, David O.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Russell, Walter

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Seneca

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Troward, Thomas

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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