Top 100 Good Conflict Quotes
#1. Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many,
Susan May Warren
#2. The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.
Stephen Moyer
#3. Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
Mark Twain
#4. A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person's mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#5. There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#6. During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.
Stephen Kinzer
#7. The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
Melvil Dewey
#8. As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.
Kate Klise
#9. You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.
Donald Trump
#10. All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
James N. Frey
#11. It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.
Pope Francis
#12. Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
Fatos Nano
#13. The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
Donald Miller
#15. There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and it just feels good to do something. But most of the time it's not like that. Most of the time there's conflict between your head and your heart.
Sheila Heti
#16. When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Terri Apter
#17. A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
Robert Townsend
#18. The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
Peter DeFazio
#19. I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.
Frida Giannini
#20. In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.
Drexel Deal
#21. I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
Emma Donoghue
#22. Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.
John Buchan
#23. The belief that objective good and evil do not exist (relativism) is in conflict (rivalry) with a rejection of God based on the existence of objective evil.
Gregory Koukl
#24. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
Henry Ford
#25. When there is conflict between us, we don't need to put our energy into fighting each other. We can combine forces to search for a solution that respects the needs of all parties. The child is an active participant in solving his problems. This will stand him in good stead in the years to come.
Joanna Faber
#26. One of my favorite operations managers often reminds people to "assume positive intent" - that is, when conflict arises between people or groups, assume that all parties are motivated by the same desire to do good by the company.
Anonymous
#27. I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood.
Timur Vermes
#29. Required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.
Ted Conover
#30. The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
William Faulkner
#31. A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it is the basic structure of a good story.
Donald Miller
#32. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
#33. Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me while I slept; and that this weary frame, absolved by death from further conflict with fate, had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness.
Charlotte Bronte
#34. Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
Simon Mainwaring
#35. Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.
Kenneth Kaye
#36. Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.
Martin McGuinness
#37. If you promote peace and progress for others, I don't think you will have sleepless nights.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.
Palmer Luckey
#39. When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
Viggo Mortensen
#40. The difference is conflict, an important yet overlooked aspect of all good communications.
David Meerman Scott
#41. That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#42. We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.
Margaret Heffernan
#43. You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
Donald Miller
#44. These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the Middle East. They're generally shades of gray. But that doesn't translate well on television. It was too complicated. Too remote.
Richard Engel
#45. I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
Barry Eisler
#46. In the temporal sphere, the temptation to evil inherent in every power is certainly unceasing. Only in God is the conflict between power and good ultimately resolved. But the desire to escape this conflict by rejecting every earthly power would lead to the worst inhumanity.
Carl Schmitt
#47. The sadness is that words hurt and can cause many a conflict, however when used for good they create waves of optimism and hope.
Paul Isaacs
#48. I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful.
Janine Di Giovanni
#49. Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
Bruce Henderson
#50. I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.
Henri
#51. Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.
Jodi Sweetin
#52. People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#53. I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
Ira Levin
#54. I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it's like there was some part of me
standing back, watching, thinking, Is this as good as it gets?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#55. Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
William Landay
#56. Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes
Ngina Otiende
#57. We're all idealists," said Lord Silverman, smoothing over the conflict like a good host. "That's why we're in politics. People without ideals don't bother. But we have to confront the realities of elections and public opinion.
Ken Follett
#58. Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.
Billy Graham
#59. Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.
Martin Luther
#60. The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
#61. Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell
#62. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
John Fowles
#63. All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#64. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
Diana Gabaldon
#65. We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.
David Berman
#66. Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
Aaron Sorkin
#67. People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
Lemony Snicket
#68. Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
Donald Miller
#69. If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
Donald Miller
#70. Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
Bill Mollison
#72. I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
Alan Ball
#73. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?
Irvin D. Yalom
#74. I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
S. Truett Cathy
#75. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.
Jasper Fforde
#76. The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.
Nick Turse
#77. Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#78. The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.
Elaine Pagels
#79. Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
Vernor Vinge
#80. The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature ... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond
#81. When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into places to see what was up. Well, I could go to parts of Libya today and find lots of good stories, but I probably wouldn't be around to tell them.
Richard Engel
#82. The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.
Mary Parker Follett
#83. How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?
Ashleigh Brilliant
#84. ...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#85. Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
Haruki Murakami
#86. The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.
Andrei Zhdanov
#87. I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
Jay Baruchel
#88. I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.
Kevin Breel
#89. Good men are remembered for their friends. Great men are remembered for their enemies. The greatest men are those who turn their enemies into friends.
M. Todd Gallowglas
#90. When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
William J. Clinton
#91. Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.
Laozi
#92. I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
#93. 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
#94. If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions
Radhanath Swami
#95. Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.
Tom Althouse
#96. Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
David Eagleman
#97. A successful direct action is like creating a good fantasy story. It's like a quest," Phillips said excitedly in the introduction. "There is a conflict, compelling characters, a good plan, build up, twists and turns, adversity, the climax, and then the win
Anonymous
#98. For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Margaret Heffernan
#99. You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
Harvey Korman
#100. If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.
Patrick N. Allitt
