Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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.

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Troward, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Seabury, David

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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

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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Seneca

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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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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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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