Motivational Quotes

Conflict

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Conflict

1.

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

2.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Roux, Joseph

3.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

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

Bhagavad Gita

6.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

9.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

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14.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

15.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

17.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

18.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Gatty, Margaret

20.

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

21.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

22.

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

Mckay, David O.

23.

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

Russell, Walter

24.

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

25.

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

Seabury, David

26.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

29.

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

Howard, Vernon

30.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

33.

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

Kames, Lord

34.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

35.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

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39.

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

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40.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Casa, Giovani della

46.

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