Don't Compromise Yourself Quotes

#1. Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

John Grisham

#2. After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a bull's-eye, or a porthole. No matter, provided there is something on the other side.

Samuel Beckett

#3. Be kind to people, do the best that you can do and don't compromise yourself for anyone else and you'll end up being the best person, trust me.

Naya Rivera

#4. I know you're in love, but don't let any man steamroll you. When all is said and done, marriage is about respect and compromise, but that doesn't mean you can't make a stand now and then for what's important. Remember that, Chelle. When love is right, it makes you stronger, not weaker." "Yes,

Ruth Cardello

#5. Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

David Green

#6. Don't compromise your focus by comparing what you are trying to learn to what you already know. Focus in the moment, on what you are trying to learn now.

Lorii Myers

#7. Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Elliott Erwitt

#8. There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

George Karl

#9. How can you compromise with people who don't want you to exist? They want us to disappear. I can't adapt to death.

Amy Harmon

#10. I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Erykah Badu

#11. One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

Michael J. Fox

#12. Here's what I find about compromise, don't do it if it hurts inside, 'cause either way you're screwed and eventually you'll find that you may as well feel good, you may as well have some pride. (Amy Ray)

Indigo Girls

#13. I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

Rashida Jones

#14. I think business at all costs is just wrong. I think there are certain things that you just don't do, and that acting with integrity and decency in business to me is just a given. I simply don't compromise on those things.

Jessica Livingston

#15. But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?"
"Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

Alexandra Kinias

#17. How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

Price Pritchett

#18. If you don't intend having a compromise, you don't negotiate at all.

Nelson Mandela

#19. It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.

Julian Jarrold

#20. Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

David Sylvian

#21. I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.

Marcello Giordani

#22. Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Toby Keith

#23. One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

Samuel Dash

#24. Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don't compromise God's moral standards. It may be difficult, but it's far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.

Billy Graham

#25. I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

Peter Singer

#26. I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#27. Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Kamala Harris

#28. I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

John Walker Lindh

#29. We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

Erykah Badu

#30. If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Amos Oz

#31. Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Olivier Martinez

#32. I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Lloyd Blankfein

#33. I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

John Calvin

#34. Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#35. To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Golda Meir

#36. Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

Dan Brown

#37. Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.

Christopher Markus

#38. I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

Michael Moore

#39. Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical.

Ronald Reagan

#40. If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Francois Hollande

#41. The most important things in a romantic relationship are compromise, honesty, openness, humility and trust. If you don't have these with someone, you don't have anything.

C. JoyBell C.

#42. If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.

Ray Kroc

#43. I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Ken Buck

#44. If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

Eva LaRue