Quotes about conflict

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood on conflict   

"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 on conflict   

"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 on conflict   

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

Macaulay, Thomas B. on conflict   

"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. on conflict   

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

Mckay, David O. on conflict
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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 on conflict   

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

Nixon, Richard M. on conflict
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"This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another."

Ornstein, Robert E. on conflict   

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

Pascal, Blaise on conflict
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"The war existing between the senses and reason."

Pascal, Blaise on conflict   

"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 on conflict   

"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 on conflict   

"A good swordsman is not given to quarrel."

Proverb, French on conflict   

"Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves."

Proverb, German on conflict
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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 on conflict
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"When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses."

Russell, Walter on conflict   

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur on conflict   

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

Seabury, David on conflict   

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

Seneca on conflict
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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 on conflict   

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

Sidney, Sir Philip on conflict   

"What rights are those that dare not resist for them?"

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on conflict   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on conflict   

"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"

Thurber, James on conflict   

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

Troward, Thomas on conflict   

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

Unknown, Source on conflict   

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

Upanishad, Yogabindu on conflict   

"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. on conflict   

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa on conflict   

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

Ziglar, Zig on conflict
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