Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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 and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.