Motivational Quotes

Conflict

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Fowler, Gene

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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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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 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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Bible

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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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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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.