Compromise Quotes

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

Compromise is an honorable word.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

Compromise is an imperfect act.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Don't compromise when you're right.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.