Compromise Quotes

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

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.'

Life is made up of compromises.

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details, the fit and finish.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.

Sanity is a compromise.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

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.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.