Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Bible

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

18.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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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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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Walter

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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

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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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 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

41.

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

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Jung, Carl

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

Fowler, Gene