Compromise Quotes

We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

The opposite of compromise is character.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

The devil is compromise.

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

Never compromise and sell yourself short.