Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Seabury, David

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

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Troward, Thomas

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Perls, Frederick Salomon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Pascal, Blaise

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Roux, Joseph