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

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 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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

11.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

19.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bible

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

27.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

31.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

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

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bronowski, Jacob

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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

Bible

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

Seabury, David

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Casa, Giovani della