Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Troward, Thomas

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Pascal, Blaise

32.

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

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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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