Profoundly inspirational conflict quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Famous Conflict Quotes
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
My father would say to me, ‘Any organization which works for peace, I will join. If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. William James
For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated the switch flipped indefinitely. We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom. We become hardwired for conflict. And that wiring remains, even when there’s no more conflict to be had.
Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. Ronald Reagan
Whether they will admit it or not, all men love fighting.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
You have the choice that I didn’t have, and you’re choosing wrong.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing
And maybe now you’ll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.
When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue. Dolores Huerta
And then quite distinctly I felt the splintering along the fissure line in my heart as the smaller part wrenched itself away from the whole.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs
My only love sprung from my only hate.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu
How should a Christian act when evil was in power?
Conflict is good in a negotiation process it’s the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea. Luke Roberts
Never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.
There’s no story if there isn’t some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it’s more or less the norm. Wes Anderson
Conflict with and hostile criticism from loved ones increase our self doubts and create a sense of helplessness, classic triggers for depression. We need validation from our loved ones. Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann
I see it all raving before me the endless yakking kitchen mouthings of life, the long dark grave of tomboy talks under midnight kitchen bulbs, in fact it fills me with love to realize that life so avid and misunderstood nevertheless reaches out skinny skeleton hand to me and to Billie too But you know what I mean.
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise, there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road. Margaret Atwood
Prior to the conflict, Europe had enjoyed decades of relative peace and stability. This stability resulted from a series of mutual defense pacts that deterred nations from seeking military solutions to disagreements with their neighbors. Additionally, the experience of so many years of peace led to a citizenry across Europe that became naive about warfare.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. Phil Knight
Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people’s lives when they go in one direction, not another. Joyce Carol Oates
We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. Desmond Tutu
I object to every single thing you just said.
Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in. Billy Graham
Even the most gifted people and leaders are subject to feeling conflicted about ending things, so they resist.
It takes two to keep the marriage vow. It takes two to have an agreement. It takes two to resolve conflict. Bottom line? Both of you need to want to work it out. Tabitha M.
So it has come to that, King Edmund, has it?’ said Caspian, laying his hand on his sword hilt.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck
He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Saul Alinsky
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly ‘s done, when the battle ‘s lost and won
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. Garth Brooks
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our traditional religion and even nation centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. M. Esther Harding
I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman
Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to a greater depth of living and the birth of more far reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. Karl Jaspers
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.
You can’t comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable. Princess Diana
Men engage in factional conflict through fear, both when they have committed injustice and are frightened of paying the penalty, and when they are about to suffer injustice and wish to forestall it.
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. Abraham Lincoln
After he and June had Nina and Jay, a woman appeared at June’s door while Mick was on tour Mick fathered her son Hud, whom she leaves with June. June forgave Mick for his affair, but eventually, he left her to marry another woman.
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. Albert Low
Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie
I will tell you only this: that you are one of the Old Ones, the first to have been born for five hundred years, and the last. And like all such, you are bound by nature to devote yourself to the long conflict between the Light and the Dark.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them. Thomas Crum
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann
It’s always more interesting to take on someone that’s going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw because there’s going to be more to play with more conflict, internally or in and around them but it’s probably the thing of finding the positive in there. Aidan Gillen
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. Mahatma Gandhi
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence. Antonio Guterres
Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them. Kenneth Cloke
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you’re not in that state of mind, it doesn’t bother you. Yotam Ottolenghi
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin
Be leery of silence. It doesn’t mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns. Shannon L. Alder
When you find yourself stuck in an oversimplified polarized conflict, a useful first step is to try to become more aware of the system as a whole: to provide more context to your understanding of the terrain in which the stakeholders are embedded, whether they are disputants, mediators, negotiators, lawyers, or other third parties. This can help you to see the forest and the trees; it is a critical step toward regaining some sense of accuracy, agency, possibility, and control in the situation. Peter T. Coleman
We don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people. Steve Goodier
When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue. Dolores Huerta
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe inspiring ability. Bryant McGill
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Saul Alinsky
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication. Harriet B. Braiker
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do. Alaric Hutchinson
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to a greater depth of living and the birth of more far reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. Karl Jaspers
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame. Dhammapada
A willingness to trust and openly listen to alternative ideas and views is essential for collaboration to be successful. Dale Eilerman
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development. Kenneth Kaye
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side. Euripides
In a conflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides. Thomas Crum
We don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people. Steve Goodier
At the heart of every story is conflict whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed. Jennifer McMahon
Basically, every character I’ve ever played, I’ve based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that because I think it’s very human. James McAvoy
Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are. Stephen Moyer
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it’s drama, it’s the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. Nicolas Cage
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what. Alan Huffman
There’s not one person in this crowd who’s gonna agree with everything I say. Not one. Howard Dean
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. Sufjan Stevens
Where there is power, there is resistance. Michel Foucault
Reconciliation is wonderful, but it’s not always possible, because it depends on a godly response from both parties. Forgiveness however depends only on us. We can forgive even if the offending party is unresponsive. Michael Hare
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
If you’re searching for top sayings that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of cute short inspirational quotes, meaningful quotations and positive quotes for selfies.
