Compromise Leadership Quotes

#1. People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Bill Hybels

#2. He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

Thomas E. Mann

#3. We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#4. The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

Joseph J. Ellis

#5. FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty.

A.E. Samaan

#6. Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

Molly Crabapple

#7. Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Horst Koehler

#8. People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy

Robert A. Caro

#9. The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.

Morihei Ueshiba

#10. The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. If you want to feel your existence use your mind.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#12. Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Robin Wright

#13. Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

David Pietrusza

#14. To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

Roland Barthes

#15. The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

William Bernbach

#16. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

Jon Meacham

#18. You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Graeme Samuel

#19. This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

Theodore Roosevelt

#20. I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.

Kimiko Glenn

#21. Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

John Piper

#22. Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Ramsay MacDonald

#23. The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

H.W. Brands

#24. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

#25. Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just ... well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett

#26. The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Annie Dillard

#27. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

#28. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

Robert A. Caro

#29. Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

Maira Kalman

#30. WOMEN..get the word 'Compromise' out of your lives..You are a 'Value Driver'..Be proud of that !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#31. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar