Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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 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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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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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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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Gandhi, Mahatma