Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

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Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Mckay, David O.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

DeVos, Richard M.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gatty, Margaret

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Troward, Thomas

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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 rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Russell, Walter

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

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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