Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

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.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

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.

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

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.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

If there was compromising material that had a shot at actually making Trump behave the way the Russians wanted him to, I would imagine it would be something financial - illegal, dirty dealings, or something with legal import.

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

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

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

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

I'm always on the road, and there's a very male-dominated energy where I am. There's that aggressive energy surrounding me, all the time. So, in personal peace and harmony, I've totally made a gazillion compromises.

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

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

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

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.