Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

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

Bible

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Bible

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

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

11.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

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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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

17.

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

18.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gatty, Margaret

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

37.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

44.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Russell, Walter