Compromise Quotes - page 4

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition. (Philippa Gregory)

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Charles Cooley

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

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

James Surowiecki

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

George Jean Nathan

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Dean Karnazes

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

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Andrew Cuomo

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

Gregory Maguire

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Richard Thompson

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)

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

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

A. K. Antony

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Ann Marie Buerkle

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

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Alain Prost

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

Beau Willimon

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Caitlin Stasey

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Cee Lo Green

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

Charlie Crist

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)

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

David Sylvian

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

Dario Argento

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

Emanuel Cleaver

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

Eva LaRue

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