Compromise Quotes

You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

A good compromise leaves everyone angry.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Everyday is a compromise.

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Don't compromise your principles.

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

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

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.