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

1.

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

2.

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

Bible

3.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

4.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

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

Roux, Joseph

6.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

9.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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.

11.

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Mckay, David O.

12.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

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

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

Casa, Giovani della

16.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

19.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Kames, Lord

21.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

22.

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

23.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Seabury, David

24.

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

Howard, Vernon

25.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

26.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

27.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

30.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

31.

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

Fowler, Gene

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

34.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

35.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

36.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

38.

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

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19]

Bible

44.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

45.

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