Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Casa, Giovani della

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bible

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Russell, Walter

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Bible

14.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

15.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

16.

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

17.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

18.

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

19.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

20.

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

Pascal, Blaise

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Howard, Vernon

25.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

26.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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.

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

31.

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.

32.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Howard, Vernon

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

36.

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

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Fowler, Gene

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

49.

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

Casa, Giovani della

50.

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

Hubbard, Elbert