Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

11.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

12.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

25.

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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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

44.

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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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

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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.