Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Conflict

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

15.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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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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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 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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I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7]

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

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

27.

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

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

37.

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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.