Motivational Quotes

Conflict

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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.

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

Gatty, Margaret

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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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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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.

Anderson, Marian

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Seneca

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

Howard, Vernon

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