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The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- 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
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
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
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
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
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
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
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
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