Compromise Quotes

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? (Diana, Princess of Wales)
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. View quote
Golda Meir
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. View quote
Janis Joplin
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. View quote
Ludwig Erhard
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. View quote
Edmund Burke
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. View quote
John Ruskin
The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. View quote
Richard Bach
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' View quote
Barack Obama
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. (Larry Wall)
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. View quote
Robert Fritz
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. View quote
Ayn Rand
Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change. View quote
Jane Goodall
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it. View quote
Anton LaVey
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. View quote
Don DeLillo
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. View quote
Tryon Edwards
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. (Abraham Lincoln)
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. View quote
Langston Hughes
Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? View quote
Jesse Helms
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
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. View quote
Nick Rahall