Agreement Quotes

• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Skins, Fool, Ready

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• Make fair agreements and stick to them

  Confucius

  Sticks, Fairs

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• Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Development, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Sides, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each party should gain from the negotiation.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Party, Gains

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.45, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

  John Hume

  People, Divided, Solutions

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Honor, Four

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Cynicism, Favourite, Altruism

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• My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Wisdom, Sarcasm

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Lothair”

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• Too much agreement kills a chat.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Funny, Communication, Too Much

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.56, Macmillan

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• One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

  Ira Gershwin

  Happiness, Music, Very Happy

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• Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Sadness, Want, Assumption

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  E. B. White

  Country, People, Disagreement

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• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Political, Boring

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Long, Propositions

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• Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

  Lord Edward Cecil

  Men, Two, Political

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• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Single Relationship, Masters

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1312, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Russell Pearce

  Silly, Promise, Paper

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• Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

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• Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

  Grover Cleveland

  Mind, Together, Sticks

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• In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

  George Mason

  Sight, People, Fundamentals

  George Mason's remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, circa April 1775.

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• The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

  James F. Byrnes

  Steps, Economic, Economy

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• During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

  George W. Norris

  War, Civilized Nations, World

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• Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Agree

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