Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Bible

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Mckay, David O.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

15.

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.

16.

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

Fowler, Gene

17.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Bhagavad Gita

21.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

Roux, Joseph

23.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

24.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

25.

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

Seabury, David

26.

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

Howard, Vernon

27.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7]

Bible

29.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Casa, Giovani della

31.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

32.

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.

33.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Kames, Lord

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Russell, Walter

38.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

39.

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

Howard, Vernon

40.

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

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

46.

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