Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.”

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

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.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

Me as a person...I'm really laid back, I'm really an on my own time type of person so its just kind of like if I have to compromise some of that for the mainstream success...to me its not really worth it. I just like to sing.

Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

Make no compromise in quality.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

Never compromise on hiring the best talent. Build value, not valuation. We have never used tactics like giving discounts, cashback to make customers use our product. This way no one can create a sustainable business.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.