Quote: Don't jump on a man unless he is down. Author: Finley Peter Dunne 1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist
Quote: You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: We are the prisoners of ideas. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves... Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. Author: Gene Fowler 1890-1960, American Journalist, Biographer
Quote: If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? Author: Margaret Gatty
Quote: 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. Author: Alistair Grant Business Executive, Chairman of Argyll Group
Quote: Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: 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. Author: Tom Hopkins American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker
Quote: We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker
Quote: 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. Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker
Quote: What people need and what they want may be very different. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: 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. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. Author: Lord Kames
Quote: If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: 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. Author: John Cantwell Kiley
Quote: What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Author: Joseph Wood Krutch 1893-1970, American Writer, Critic, Naturalist
Quote: 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.'' Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Low American Author
Quote: The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. Author: Thomas B. Macaulay 1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian
Quote: 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. Author: Robert J. Mckain
Quote: The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. Author: David O. Mckay
Quote: 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. Author: Clark Moustakas Humanistic Psychologist
Quote: Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Quote: 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. Author: Robert E. Ornstein
Quote: The war existing between the senses and reason. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Frederick Salomon Perls 1893-1970, German Psychiatrist
Quote: I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. Author: Joseph Roux 1834-1905, French Priest, Writer
Quote: When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. Author: Walter Russell
Quote: A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ''ambivalence'': a collision between thought and feeling. Author: David Seabury American Doctor, Author
Quote: A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Marian Anderson 1902-1993, American Contralto Concert and Opera Singer
Quote: 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. Author: Thurman W. Arnold
Quote: A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. [Proverbs 13:10] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: You are at enmity with yourself. Author: Jacob Boehme 1575-1624, German Mystic
Quote: 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. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: 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. Author: Nathaniel Branden American Expert on Self-esteem, Author, Psychologist
Quote: What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry? Author: ª Ashleigh Brilliant 1933-, British-born American Humorist [Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams (BRILLIANT THOUGHTS ®) are individually protected by international copyright, and appear here by special permission. All rights reserved. Visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com]
Quote: We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. Author: Jacob Bronowski 1908-1974, British Scientist, Author
Quote: The archenemy is the arch stupid! Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. Author: Giovani della Casa 1503-1556, Papal Secretary of State
Quote: I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. Author: Richard M. DeVos 1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.
Quote: You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable, Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: 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. Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Quote: Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. Author: Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1586, British Author, Courtier
Quote: What rights are those that dare not resist for them? Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: We cannot really think in one way and act in another... Author: Thomas Troward
Quote: The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Success has made failures of many men. Author: Cindy Adams
Quote: More will mean worse. Author: Martin Amis 1949-, British Author
Quote: Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within. Author: Yogabindu Upanishad Ancient Hindu Scripture
Quote: 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. Author: William T. Walsh
Quote: 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. Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright
Quote: There are always two forces warring against each other within us. Author: Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Author, Lecturer
Quote: You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker