Top 100 Quotes About Compromising
#1. Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning
Michael Dell
#3. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.
Denzel Washington
#4. The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.
Mahmud Tarzi
#5. My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
Ellen Barkin
#6. Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.
Emma Goldman
#7. Because people love music, I feel it's my responsibility to produce more of the music and to get it out to more people, so like I said, If the mainstream route does that without compromising me being happy as a person then that's something I'll do.
Jhene Aiko
#8. I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.
Michael Harney
#10. It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your air quality in exchange for an enormous car.
John Vaillant
#11. I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.
Katie Aselton
#12. Brand integrity is the ability to present one's brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand's promise).
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#14. What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.
Angus T. Jones
#15. May our light shine in this world
so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love
and our compromising words of truth
and give glory to your hallowed name,
Father
John Piper
#16. Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.
David Perlmutter
#17. You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.
Bryant McGill
#18. With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.
Jonny Lang
#19. If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.
Spike Jonze
#20. But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
Joichi Ito
#21. There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.
Hester Browne
#22. Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#23. Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
Ann Widdecombe
#25. The key question of our time is learning how to respond in love when people don't agree, without compromising our view.
Christy McFerren
#26. When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
John Spence
#27. And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.
Raekwon
#28. The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
Gordon Ramsay
#29. 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
#30. Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
Gore Vidal
#31. I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'
Adam Rapp
#32. Staying loyal to your journey means you never abandon yourself by compromising your integrity or discounting your intuition or the signals that come from your body - the knot in the gut, emotional detachment, or loss of energy that signals something is amiss.
Charlotte Kasl
#33. You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.
Drew Barrymore
#34. Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.
M.F. Moonzajer
#35. Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.
Elliott Erwitt
#36. We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
George Washington
#37. Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus.
Judah Smith
#38. There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
Colm Meaney
#39. Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials
Florence King
#40. What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet.
Jeremy Rifkin
#41. I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.
Tom Stoppard
#42. Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.
Helen Fielding
#43. 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
#44. I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.
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#45. 'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
George Lucas
#46. Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
Neil Simon
#47. Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.
Kenny Smith
#48. I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit.
Ice Cube
#49. There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.
Terry Goodkind
#50. We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
Luc De Clapiers
#51. The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#52. Avoid compromising if you really want or need to say No.
Auliq Ice
#53. True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
Muhammad Ali
#54. Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.
Al Ritter
#55. There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#56. 'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.
Reza Aslan
#57. It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
Harvey Milk
#58. I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
Henry Hopper
#59. I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.
Florence Welch
#60. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
Susan Isaacs
#61. I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
Yingluck Shinawatra
#62. The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.
Mo Brooks
#63. You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school.
"Lots," he said.
-Rose (Roza) to Dimitri
Richelle Mead
#64. I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me
I actually took my teachers seriously!
Sinclair Lewis
#65. the goal of sustainable development is "to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality of life, without compromising the quality of life of future generations.
Krasimir Kirov
#66. Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life
Richard Rogers
#67. An individualist - a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own - may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.
Donald Kingsbury
#68. There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.
Glen Campbell
#69. It was a nice compromise, something I'd never experienced before in my life. With Cooter I did the compromising, I didnt know what it was like to have a fair dose of what I wanted before I gave in to what someone else wanted.
Kristen Ashley
#70. But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.
Elizabeth Brundage
#71. Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#72. Love is not compromising your core values for someone else's. Love brings up your Highest Self.
Cloris Kylie
#73. Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
Wyndham Lewis
#74. I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.
Edwin Meese
#75. A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.
Steven Pinker
#76. Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
Chuck Mangione
#77. We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Ban Ki-moon
#78. I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.
Big Sean
#79. If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
John Cowper Powys
#80. Over, under, around, or through, there's always a way. You don't give up and you never give in. They can scar your body and take your freedom, but only you can surrender your heart and soul. Nothing is worth compromising yourself for. Stand fast and stand true. Always.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Don Ellis
#82. Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey
#83. Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
Mo Rocca
#84. 'Style Strategy' is about shopping smart, staying chic and making it all last. It's about showing women how to shop for value without compromising style.
Nina Garcia
#85. We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.
Joseph Mailman
#86. Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values...
Assegid Habtewold
#87. Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
Stephen Covey
#88. You should go in there and take a pic of him in a compromising position. That would sell magazines." Austin Reese
Bella Jeanisse
#89. You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you've taken as you've grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined.
Stephanie Danler
#90. I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
Francis Maude
#91. Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
Frank Gaffney
#92. The greatest killer of purpose and a purposeful life is compromising on mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. I do not tell her that sometimes it feels like compromising yourself is part of growing up.
Trista Mateer
#94. Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#95. As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
Kyle MacLachlan
#96. The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
John Piper
#97. Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.
Guy Garvey
#98. Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful.
P.G. Wodehouse
#99. I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
Elizabeth Olsen
#100. If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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