Agreeing Quotes

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Cynical

One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel

I have a respect for manners as such,
they are a way of dealing with people
you don't agree with or like.
- Margaret Mead

Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie