Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Seneca

12.

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 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

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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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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Roux, Joseph

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

36.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Troward, Thomas

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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.