Motivational Quotes

Conflict

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Conflict

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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

Russell, Walter

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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

Bible

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Kames, Lord

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Howard, Vernon

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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

28.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

29.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

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

Seneca

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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

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

Gatty, Margaret

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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 people need and what they want may be very different.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

38.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Casa, Giovani della

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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