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

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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.

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

Seabury, David

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Seneca

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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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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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bible

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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