Quotes about conflict

"Success has made failures of many men."

Adams, Cindy on conflict   

"More will mean worse."

Amis, Martin on conflict   

"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 on conflict
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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. on conflict   

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

Bhagavad Gita on conflict
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"The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]"

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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]"

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

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"You are at enmity with yourself."

Boehme, Jacob on conflict   

"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 on conflict
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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 on conflict   

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

Bronowski, Jacob on conflict   

"The archenemy is the arch stupid!"

Carlyle, Thomas on conflict   

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

Casa, Giovani della on conflict   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on conflict
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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 on conflict   

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

Colton, Charles Caleb on conflict
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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. on conflict   

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

Diana, Princess of Wales on conflict   

"No man is hurt but by himself"

Diogenes of Sinope on conflict
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"Don't jump on a man unless he is down."

Dunne, Finley Peter on conflict   

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

Einstein, Albert on conflict
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"We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves..."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on conflict   

"We are the prisoners of ideas."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on conflict   

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

Fowler, Gene on conflict   

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

Gandhi, Mahatma on conflict
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"The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?"

Gatty, Margaret on conflict
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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 on conflict   

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Hill, Napoleon on conflict   

"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 on conflict
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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 on conflict   

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

Howard, Vernon on conflict   

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

Howard, Vernon on conflict   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on conflict
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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 on conflict   

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

Kames, Lord on conflict   

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

Kennedy, John F. on conflict
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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 on conflict
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