Compromise Quotes

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...