Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

There can be no compromise with war.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.