Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

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Best Quotes about Conflict

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Walter

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

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

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

Troward, Thomas

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Gatty, Margaret

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.