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

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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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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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 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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Bible

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Seneca

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gatty, Margaret

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Ziglar, Zig