Agrees Quotes

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

Related topics: Inspirational Live-By Buddhist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

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

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

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

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

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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)

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

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

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

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

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

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 is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

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

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