Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

DeVos, Richard M.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

12.

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

13.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

18.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Russell, Walter

24.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

25.

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

26.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

28.

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

Ornstein, Robert E.

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Howard, Vernon

33.

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

34.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

35.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

36.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

Roux, Joseph

42.

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

Gatty, Margaret

43.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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