Top 100 Quotes About Compromise
#1. Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
Adam Young
#2. Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#3. I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
#5. But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
Jimmy Page
#6. I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
Abigail Disney
#7. 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
#8. As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
Kevin McCloud
#9. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
#10. Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.
Kristin Armstrong
#11. We have to stop all of the fighting and talking without listening and find a sense of compromise. It's very evident that it could possibly happen. No matter what your political views are, we're in a very dangerous state of politics.
Edwin Hodge
#12. Worship is exclusionary. You cannot compromise on worship. Worship
Ravi Zacharias
#13. Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
Nicholas Sparks
#14. I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost.
Pawan Mishra
#15. 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
#16. I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise.
Billy Graham
#17. Emotional intensity seemed to meet and mingle with an air of indifference, even of cruelty within these ancient walls. Youth and Time here had made, as it were, some compromise.
Anthony Powell
#18. Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.
Nora Roberts
#19. No one to notice
No one to stare
No one to compromise with
No one to care
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#20. I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.
Rebekah Brooks
#21. Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.
Megan Smith
#22. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.
Barack Obama
#23. We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
Bayard Rustin
#24. Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
Simon Campbell
#25. He repeated his plea that they be fair and open-minded, open to reason and compromise, and praised them for being so reasonable and open-minded thus far - which of course made it harder for them to act otherwise,
Robert A. Caro
#26. I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.
Russell Tovey
#27. Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
Todd Solondz
#28. True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.
Debra Anastasia
#30. 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
#31. The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Robert Toombs
#32. One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.
Lou Holtz
#33. The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.
Chuck Schumer
#34. I would disagree with fight or flight. That leaves no room for compromise and understanding.
Ron Marz
#35. We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.
Stephen Harper
#36. Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Charles Horton Cooley
#37. The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.
Steve Carell
#38. I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.
Agatha Christie
#39. It is tempting to conform: community life is a lot easier where everyone appears to agree with everyone else, and where dissent is blunted by the conventions of compromise.
Tony Judt
#40. 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
#41. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice - the power of change, the essential function of life.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere
#43. To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation ... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.
Saul Alinsky
#44. By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#45. For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
Kenneth Chenault
#46. I feel a certain kinship with them. They don't compromise and they're not easy to know."
-Owen d'Arcy
Jane Feather
#47. From compromise to deceit is a small step.
Billy Graham
#48. Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
John Updike
#49. A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.
Evan Esar
#50. But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Gregory Harrison
#51. The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.
Alan Grayson
#52. The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
Steve Chabot
#53. I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?
Virginia Woolf
#54. Although as an individual Gao had readily denounced the Chinese authorities for the events of 4 June in the French and Italian media, he refused to compromise his integrity as a writer. His stance angered both political sides.
Gao Xingjian
#55. Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
Gary Hirshberg
#56. Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.
Henry Petroski
#57. Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
Christian Bale
#58. The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.
Richard Mourdock
#59. You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
Ayrton Senna
#61. I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.
Nick Xenophon
#62. In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
Viggo Mortensen
#64. 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
#65. Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
David James Duncan
#66. And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
Neal Stephenson
#69. God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.
Sylvia Plath
#71. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
#72. The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.
Billy Corgan
#73. This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#74. Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
Amber Valletta
#75. I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.
Mike Singletary
#76. This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#77. What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise - is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
Barbara Gittings
#78. I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
Isaac Hayes
#79. Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
Daniel R. Scoggin
#81. Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
Alan Cohen
#82. I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.
David Souter
#83. Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli
#84. Will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
Dorothy Gilman
#85. Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
Jim DeMint
#86. Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don't compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
James Franco
#87. 'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.
Peter Capaldi
#88. Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.
John Grisham
#89. As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
Neil Peart
#90. I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.
Christina Stead
#91. Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
Joyce Meyer
#92. Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.
Tim Fargo
#93. 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
#94. And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
Sarah Dessen
#95. The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
#96. 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
#97. The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.
Imre Kertesz
#98. The very fact that we still have majors at all in this country represents a compromise between the ideals of depth and breadth -
William Deresiewicz
#99. 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
#100. With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you do if I surrender?" he asked.
"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.
"And if I don't surrender?"
"I'll eat you just the same.
Heywood Broun
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