Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Conflict

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Seabury, David

18.

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

Casa, Giovani della

19.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

20.

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

Kames, Lord

21.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

22.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

25.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

26.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Russell, Walter

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Pascal, Blaise

32.

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

Gatty, Margaret

33.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

34.

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

35.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Bible

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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.

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

48.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

50.

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.