Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Conflict

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ziglar, Zig

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Troward, Thomas

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

33.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Roux, Joseph

43.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Bible

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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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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