Top 100 Not Compromise Quotes
#1. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
Thomas S. Monson
#2. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
Amory Lovins
#3. One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
Matt Dillon
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly.
Mary Balogh
#8. We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#9. George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.
Elliott Abrams
#10. We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel ... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#11. She is different from her people. And when she tries to do as they do, it cracks her heart to the core. Looking at her, I know I was wrong. She is not a distraction. She does not compromise my mission. She is the point of it all.
Pierce Brown
#12. Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).
Jane Goodall
#13. 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
#14. Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.
Philip Yancey
#15. Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.
Billy Graham
#16. 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
#17. You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
Heston Blumenthal
#18. When you are tempted, the Lord is with you. Do not compromise but keep going .
Osunsakin Adewale
#19. We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
Chris Bowen
#20. It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?
Alexi Lawless
#21. 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
#22. Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.
DeVon Franklin
#23. What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
Chris Hayes
#24. One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.
Barack Obama
#26. I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
Aidan Chambers
#27. You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.
Jason T. Smith
#28. 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
#29. I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.
Hunter Hayes
#30. Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Charles Horton Cooley
#31. I want you to be true to who God made you to be and not compromise your values for anyone or anything.
Lorna Seilstad
#32. God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.
Wade Davis
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!
Robert Sobukwe
#37. Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
Kajol
#38. Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
Anna Lindh
#39. You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
Janis Joplin
#40. I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.
Markwayne Mullin
#41. Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security.
Sanford Bishop
#42. I believe that the American poet ought to be a tough son of a bitch. He sought to hold his own in this culture on his own terms and not compromise under any circumstances.
James Dickey
#43. 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
#44. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
Daniel Pipes
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.
Jamie Dimon
#59. 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
#60. Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.
Ron Kaufman
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet
Sheryl Sandberg
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.
Julianne Moore
#83. Commitment is another name for relationship not the compromise.
Santosh Kalwar
#84. Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
Langston Hughes
#85. Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
G.K. Chesterton
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. 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
#95. Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Jalal Talabani
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
