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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Bible

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

10.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

11.

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

Roux, Joseph

12.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

14.

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

Kames, Lord

15.

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

Russell, Walter

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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.

20.

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

Fowler, Gene

21.

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

22.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

24.

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

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

Mckay, David O.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

31.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

Casa, Giovani della

38.

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

Seabury, David

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

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

Gatty, Margaret

44.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

45.

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

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

48.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

49.

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