Conflict Quotes

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

Vernon Howard

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

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.

Tom Hopkins

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.

Thurman W. Arnold

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

Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one

Mother Theresa

In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.

Christopher Hitchens

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

David Seabury

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.

John Cantwell Kiley

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

We have met the enemy and it is us.

Walt Kelly, "Pogo comic strip"

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

Bhagavad Gita

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot

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.

Alistair Grant

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

Richard Milhous Nixon

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.

Marian Anderson