Top 100 Not Compromise Quotes
#1. It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
Tom DeLay
#2. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
Thomas S. Monson
#5. All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living systems. Thus, all living things must grow, adapt, evolve, or die. Evolution is nature's creative way of pushing living organisms to higher degrees of complexity. We adapt up, not compromise down.
Alvin Conway
#6. We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
Nick Rahall
#7. We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#8. Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
Arnold Schoenberg
#9. Rocks make no compromise for sex ... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.
Beverly Johnson
#10. It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.
Theodore Kaczynski
#11. Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
H. Rap Brown
#12. We live the life, but in an honest way. Without compromise, without corruption. This I understand now is the big key to my power - the power of Dolce & Gabbana. It's not just the clothes. It's love for the people.
Domenico Dolce
#13. Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
Daniel Pipes
#14. As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.
Tobsha Learner
#15. 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
#16. Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
Criss Jami
#17. 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
#18. If I assume the 'truth' to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my 'truth.' And the 'truth' of the matter is, when I do this I've chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.
Jamie Dimon
#20. To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also ... There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
John Marshall
#21. Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.
Ron Kaufman
#22. We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.
Ralph Bunche
#23. We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#24. Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.
Zicheng Hong
#25. Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel
Bob Dylan
#27. Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#28. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#29. On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
Ellen Key
#30. To the Greek mind, the unwillingness to compromise in religious matters - which were not all that important, anyway - was impious, unpatriotic, maybe even seditious. For the Jews, religion was the Way of Life; it had nothing in common with the empty rituals of the Greeks.
Thomas Cahill
#31. 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
#32. I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.
Cher
#33. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
#34. The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
Sammy Hagar
#35. our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preserving, which can similarly be triggered off only at a far higher level of stimulus
John Brunner
#36. I suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to look like. One of us was always angry.
Gillian Flynn
#37. We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.
Ben Carson
#39. Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
Steve Maraboli
#40. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet
Sheryl Sandberg
#41. Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
Ayn Rand
#42. She was also not a woman who would be told what to do, not like Jessie, who knew the art of compromise (though, it should be said, Jessie knew it existed, she didn't utilize it much).
Kristen Ashley
#43. Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.
Bram Cohen
#44. The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.
Donna Ball
#45. We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.
Yitzhak Rabin
#46. Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.
Julianne Moore
#47. Commitment is another name for relationship not the compromise.
Santosh Kalwar
#48. Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
Langston Hughes
#49. Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. It's not all about love. That's half of it ... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'
Marc Maron
#51. I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
Lupita Nyong'o
#52. You must understand that by this time the only choice was among several varieties of defeat, but the town in question rejected compromise and would settle for nothing but victory. That was not reason talking; that was the voice of litost!
Milan Kundera
#53. Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.
DeVon Franklin
#54. These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it's about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it's about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it's not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That's a mistake.
Simon Le Bon
#55. Me as a person ... I'm really laid back, I'm really an on my own time type of person so its just kind of like if I have to compromise some of that for the mainstream success ... to me its not really worth it. I just like to sing.
Jhene Aiko
#56. Real life is not a love story. It's a series of tough decisions, disappointments and compromise. It ain't glamorous or fluffy, and it doesn't always have a happy ending. We live. And we learn. And sometimes that's the best we can hope for.
Joanne Phillips
#57. When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.
William J. Clinton
#58. The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin
#59. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#60. What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
Chris Hayes
#61. I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.
Marco Rubio
#62. Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Jalal Talabani
#63. Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.
Garth Stein
#64. Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel "from" Christ and not merely a Gospel "about" Christ. Gal 1:6-12
John Paul Warren
#65. Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#66. You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.
Jeremiah Wright
#67. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
#68. I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
Mary Balogh
#69. Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
Ogwo David Emenike
#70. I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.
Heather Wilson
#71. I feel a certain kinship with them. They don't compromise and they're not easy to know."
-Owen d'Arcy
Jane Feather
#72. It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner
#73. I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.
Cory Monteith
#74. No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
Star Jones
#75. Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
David Novak
#76. I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.
Napoleon Hill
#77. The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.
Imre Kertesz
#78. I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.
Patrice Kindl
#79. No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.
Glennon Melton
#80. Her toolbox is full. She has learned to not let go of the pieces of herself that she needs in order to be what someone else wants. She's learned not to compromise. She's learned not to settle. She's learned, as difficult as it is, how to be her own sun.
Shonda Rhimes
#81. I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.
Bill Keller
#82. The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.
Barack Obama
#83. If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.
Marvin J. Ashton
#84. His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#85. The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.
John Foster Dulles
#86. I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.
Rachel Nichols
#87. I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
Alan Sugar
#88. As we've come along, we've educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.
Rhett McLaughlin
#89. Life, relationships and success is not for compromise.
Dee Dee Artner
#90. It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
John Calvin
#91. Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.
Monica Crowley
#92. Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.
Waite Phillips
#93. We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
R.C. Sproul
#94. I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.
Markwayne Mullin
#95. You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.
Marina And The Diamonds
#96. Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.
Tony Robbins
#97. At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.
Kurt Schrader
#98. If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.
Marco Rubio
#99. Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.
Ayelet Waldman
#100. What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power - that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
Bill McCartney
