Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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.

10.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

19.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Howard, Vernon

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Pascal, Blaise

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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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.