Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

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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

2.

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.

4.

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

Casa, Giovani della

5.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

7.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Roux, Joseph

8.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

12.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Gatty, Margaret

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Howard, Vernon

16.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

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

Troward, Thomas

21.

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

Bhagavad Gita

22.

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

Seabury, David

23.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

24.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

25.

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

Fowler, Gene

26.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

27.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Kames, Lord

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

43.

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