Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing things up, principle over self-preservation, the gains, the losses.

To most women, size does count, but—if the man is rich, powerful, or famous—it does not matter.

Too many Christian TV and radio programs have been geared to please, entertain, and gain the favor of the world. The temptation is to compromise, to make the gospel more appealing and attractive.

Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey. We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.

To pay a price in advance, to the unjust, a price to prevent advances against your physical integrity -- that is to compromise your dignity. And dignity compromised is no longer dignity.

To understand your beloved ones, you need to know feelings language, emotions-language, love-language, body language, compromise language and lastly the silent language that's the final step to journey towards the soul, be patient with the pure and sincere devotion that leads you together forever.

Two things.' 'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.' 'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword. That's the first thing.' Yeats didn't react. If anything, he seemed baffled. 'The second thing is I wouldn't characterize Harry as indecisive and untrained with weapons.

We are to renounce the evil influence of the world, the flesh, and the devil. There can be no parleying, bargaining, compromise, or hesitation. Christ demands total loyalty.

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

We need to remind the peers of the bully that they benefit from bullying even if they are not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it. To chip away at the humanity of select groups is to chip away at humanity itself.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise.

When we look at Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, we see that God's grace can survive our three-ring-circuses of compromise, rationalization and weak faith.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

We worked to find not a middle-ground, but a new ground that would support us both.

[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.

When you compromise the word of God without remorse, it is an indication that you were never deeply rooted in Jesus Christ. Peter was remorseful. Luke 22:54-62.

When you compromise your life, you compromise unhappiness.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

wherever there is true love, compromising will always be an unspoken norm.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

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.

With a definite purpose, plans of actions to fulfil purpose,high level of willingness to follow plans, and a never compromising nature. Living is at maximum. For this I have concluded that problem of an unconscious person is too fundamental and minute and so always ignored but its influence are great and life threatening.

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

You can be humble without compromising your values.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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!

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

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

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

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

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.

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

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.

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.

'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.