Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

12.

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

Seneca

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

26.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

27.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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

33.

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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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