Motivational Quotes

Conflict

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Mckay, David O.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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.

11.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

15.

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

Howard, Vernon

16.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Pascal, Blaise

20.

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

21.

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

Casa, Giovani della

22.

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

Fowler, Gene

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

26.

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.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Seabury, David

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

33.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Roux, Joseph

34.

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

Troward, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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.

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Kames, Lord

40.

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

Russell, Walter

41.

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.

42.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

43.

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

44.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

46.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

47.

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

Howard, Vernon

48.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

49.

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