Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

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.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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'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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur