Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Upanishad, Yogabindu

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

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

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bible

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

Troward, Thomas

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Bible

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

44.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.