Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

1.

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

2.

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

Seabury, David

3.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

9.

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

10.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

11.

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

Gatty, Margaret

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Bible

14.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

16.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

17.

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

Casa, Giovani della

18.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Bhagavad Gita

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Howard, Vernon

22.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

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

Roux, Joseph

24.

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

Kames, Lord

25.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

26.

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

27.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

31.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

32.

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

33.

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

Fowler, Gene

34.

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

Russell, Walter

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

37.

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

38.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

41.

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

Pascal, Blaise

42.

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

Seneca

43.

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

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44.

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

Troward, Thomas

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Bible

47.

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.

48.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

49.

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

Mckay, David O.

50.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope