Motivational Quotes

Conflict

We are the prisoners of ideas.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Conflict

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

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

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

Kames, Lord

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Troward, Thomas

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

13.

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

14.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

20.

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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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

Bible

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

38.

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

39.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Seneca

42.

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

Bible

44.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

49.

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

Howard, Vernon