Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Bible

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Troward, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sidney, Sir Philip

14.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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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.

20.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

21.

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

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

Bible

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

Casa, Giovani della

25.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Howard, Vernon

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

Gatty, Margaret

40.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

41.

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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Walter

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.