Motivational Quotes

Conflict

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

10.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Mckay, David O.

14.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

17.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Bronowski, Jacob

18.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

32.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

33.

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

Seabury, David

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Howard, Vernon

36.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

37.

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.

38.

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

Troward, Thomas

39.

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

40.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

44.

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

Gatty, Margaret

45.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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

Casa, Giovani della

48.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur