Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

Dignity of women is our collective responsibility. There should be no compromise in this matter. There should be no erosion in the law and order situation. We have to revive the family culture in which a woman is respected and considered equal, her dignity encouraged.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

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

Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security.

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.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Don't compromise your principles.

Don't compromise quickly. Women are more likely to automatically take the first offer on the table because we're more likely to feel "lucky" to be employed at all. But remember, negotiation isn't necessarily one round: you can come back with other asks, even if those things aren't money.

Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

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

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

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

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

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

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

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

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

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

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.

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

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

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

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

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

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.

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.

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

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.