Conflict Quotes

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

Princess of Wales Diana

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.

Nathaniel Branden

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

Richard M. DeVos

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

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

Jacob Bronowski

You are at enmity with yourself.

Jacob Boehme

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Zig Ziglar

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Martin Buber

All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

Ethel Lynn Beers

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Barbara Tuchman

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

Gene Fowler

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

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

James Thurber

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson