(856 quotes found)
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
M. Esther Harding
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
John Muir
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
“There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.”
L. Ron Hubbard
“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
Emile Coue
“It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”
Winston Churchill
“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”
Norman Schwarzkopf
“So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.”
Sun Tzu
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary”
Kathleen Norris
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
William S. Burroughs
