Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Conflict

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Kames, Lord

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Casa, Giovani della

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Seneca

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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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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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gatty, Margaret

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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