Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

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Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Seneca

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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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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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Pascal, Blaise