Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Conflict

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

10.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

11.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

18.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

19.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

20.

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

Mckay, David O.

21.

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

Casa, Giovani della

22.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

Troward, Thomas

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Russell, Walter

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

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

Roux, Joseph

39.

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

Bible

40.

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.

41.

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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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

43.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

44.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

47.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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