Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Howard, Vernon

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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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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If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Kennedy, John F.

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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 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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Seneca

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Howard, Vernon

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Ziglar, Zig

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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