65 Agreed Quotes On Success In Life
These agreed quotes will inspire you. Agreed, if two or more people are agreed, they have the same opinion or are discussed or negotiated and then accepted by all parties.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging agreed quotes, agreed sayings, and agreed proverbs.
Best Agreed Quotes
- “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.” Lawrence Kohlberg
- “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.” Abraham Lincoln
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“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” Dudley Field Malone
- “We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.” Oliver Tambo
- “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” Robert A. Heinlein
- “I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we’ve factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it’s more important that you ask the question ‘why.’ ” Killer Mike , Agreed quotes with you
- “My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, ‘George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.’ ” Tagg Romney
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“It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.” Frederick Pollock
- “From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.” Noreena Hertz
- “As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.” George Mason
- “That is who Barack Obama is – a person of admirable character – and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective – even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.” Elizabeth Gilbert
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“When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.” Terry Bradshaw
- “Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.” Robert Frost
- “A lot of people don’t know this about Wu-Tang, it started from a focused mind. I was given total autonomy to do whatever I want with them… They agreed, to me, to be a dictator for five years. And in those five years, it’s considered some of our best work.” Rza
- “Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.” Ahmed Ben Bella
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“Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.” E. Stanley Jones
- “We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.” Ismail Haniyeh
- “My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.” Clint Eastwood
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“What is history but a fable agreed upon?” Napoleon Bonaparte
- “To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.” Richard Jefferies
- “El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.” Joe Biden
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“Every global leader that I have seen has at least agreed on one point: I do have the world’s most difficult job. But I hope to make it easier for my successor.” Ashraf Ghani
- “I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.” Jack Dangermond
- “The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.” Lewis Thomas
- “I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.” Mandy Patinkin
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“Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.” Will Rogers
- “I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn’t at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can’t get to the right answer here.” Donald Berwick
- “I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.” Carl Sandburg
- “We’ve waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy. Mike Rowe I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church – and still don’t to this day.” Ronnie James Dio
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“GE Appliances has agreed to give my mom a whole kitchen’s worth of new appliances and a washer and dryer, and all I need to do is shout them out.” Darci Lynne Farmer
- “My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.” Lou Holtz
- “I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.” Bliss Carman
- “Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet – a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.” Frederick William Robertson
- “Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.” Harold E. Varmus
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“As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some sort of social contract agreed upon by all citizens; it must always originate in the processes of the free market.” Murray Rothbard
- “I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.” Robert Lucas, Jr.
- “In high school, the drama program shifted to musicals, and that’s not a skill set I possess, so I let sports be my outlet, and I agreed to play football in college. I was invited to play at the University of Missouri, and I played there for a year, but when all of the talented people are plucked and put in one place, it’s scary; it’s tough.” Charlie Weber
- “And I agreed with that, and I couldn’t wait to change my name anyway, because I’m not too fond of the name of Reginald. It’s a very kind of ’50s English name.” Elton John
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“Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don’t even have to actually perform the act; they just need to have agreed to do so.” Neal Katyal
- “In ‘Charade,’ there was a big fight. George Kennedy was playing one of his first big heavy roles; he had a hook for a hand, and he was real ugly. Cary Grant was Cary Grant. They were on a slanted roof, a very exciting fight, and we agreed there shouldn’t be any music, just the grunts and the action.” Henry Mancini
- “We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.” George P. Shultz
- “After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.” Charles Lawrence
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“I do quite often thank Frank Skinner because he agreed to do the very first series and that was a real stamp of approval.” Alex Horne
- “I just think age is meaningless. It’s a system we’ve all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.” Peter Horton
- “The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the ministries if my father would have simply walked away. When I accepted the role as the next senior pastor, he had agreed to be an ambassador-at-large and raise funds for the endowment fund. He didn’t do that.” Robert A. Schuller
- “A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late ’80s agreed that ’employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.’ A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the ’90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.” Barbara Ehrenreich
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“Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.” Edward Johnson, III
- “We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California’s children.” Rob Reiner
- “I’m always a bit suspicious of the sort of person who argues by saying ‘What would Jesus have said?’ They usually mean that they are quite sure Jesus would have agreed with them.” Peter Hitchens
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“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.” James Russell Lowell
- “Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.” Joe Namath
- “A good role is one that moves along with the story, like ‘Baazigar’ and ‘Kareeb’ for example. Similarly, I agreed to ’36 China Town’ and ‘Phir Hera Pheri’ because my characters in both films have a graph and are significant in moving the story ahead.” Johnny Lever
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“In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed.” Iain Banks
- “Climatologists are all agreed that we’d be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.” James Lovelock
- “Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.” Ian Hacking
- “It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don’t. It’s hard to build something that’s incompletely defined.” Edward M. Lerner
- “Consider this: Whenever someone is bothering you, and they just won’t let up, and they won’t listen to anything you have to say, what do you tell them to get them to shut up and go away? ‘You’re right.’ It works every time. But you haven’t agreed to their position. You have used ‘you’re right’ to get them to quit bothering you.” Christopher Voss
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“Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I’m eager to tap into. We’re all incredibly excited that he’s agreed to help us bring ‘To the Bone’ to life.” Marti Noxon
- “My first book deal was actually for a textbook – ‘Judo and You’ – that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for Kendall-Hunt came looking for someone to write the book, and even though it wasn’t a course I was teaching there, I agreed to write it.” Jonathan Maberry
- “We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.” Mahmoud Abbas
- “In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.” Barack Obama
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“There are certainly delays in this year’s agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let’s not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.” Antonis Samaras
- “I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.” Anne Lamott
- “All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.” Lysander Spooner
