Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Bible

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

Roux, Joseph

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

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Gatty, Margaret

10.

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

11.

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

Fowler, Gene

12.

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

Kames, Lord

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

Casa, Giovani della

14.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

16.

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

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

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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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

24.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

27.

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

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Seabury, David

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Russell, Walter

35.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

36.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

39.

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

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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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

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

46.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Bronowski, Jacob