Compromise Quotes

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

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.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

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

Live for who and what you love.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

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.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

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.

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

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.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Emphasize comfort without compromise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

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.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.

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.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

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!

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

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.

I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.