Compromise Quotes

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

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

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

I'm not good at compromise.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

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.