Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Kames, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Howard, Vernon

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.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Russell, Walter

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 rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Bible

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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