Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kames, Lord

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bible

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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 good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.