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 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.

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

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

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

Bible

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

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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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]

Bible

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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 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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Troward, Thomas

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