Motivational Quotes

Conflict

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Troward, Thomas

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19]

Bible

28.

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

Bible

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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