Motivational Quotes

Conflict

I'm not a combative person.My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

- Grant, Alistair

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Bible

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

DeVos, Richard M.

10.

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

11.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gatty, Margaret

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

31.

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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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 war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

36.

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

Russell, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

45.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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