Motivational Quotes

Conflict

More will mean worse.

- Amis, Martin

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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.

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

Seneca

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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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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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

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

Seabury, David

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

Casa, Giovani della

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Gatty, Margaret

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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

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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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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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.