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

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

Seabury, David

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

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

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

Bible

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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 passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Walter

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bible

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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 can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable,

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Troward, Thomas

44.

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

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.