Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

You cannot carry your whole marriage on your back and call it, compromising. It takes two willing hearts to effectively compromise.

You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work.

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B.

You may be an expert in environmental protection policy, but when it comes to science, you're an amateur. How much do you actually know about undersea resource development? If you truly want to come up with a solution that allows both, you'll need to have the same amount of knowledge and experience with both. It's arrogant to think that knowing only one is sufficient. Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!

You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.

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

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are hard, and the difficulties between them really begin to loom very large by 1936, by 1938.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

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

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.

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

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

A series is filled with compromises.

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

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

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

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.

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

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.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to.

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

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.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

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

Be kind to people, do the best that you can do and don’t compromise yourself for anyone else and you’ll end up being the best person, trust me.

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.