Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Conflict

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

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

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.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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 passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Troward, Thomas

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Gatty, Margaret

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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