Compromise Quotes · Page 17

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

— Curt Smith

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

— Jonny Lang

“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

— Markwayne Mullin

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

— Amos Oz

Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

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

— Storm Jameson

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish…

— Jim Clyburn

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

— May Sarton

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

— Cher

I think it's safe to say I love cooking as much as I love sports. I love creating new dishes and just…

— Kelly Gale

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

— Michael Dell

Real love is not based on romance, candle light dinner, walk along the beach- in fact based upon the respect, compromise, care…

— Anonymous

“I wasn’t going to compromise. I wanted the guy in the books. The book boyfriend must come to life. Otherwise there was…

— Anonymous

Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she…

— Suzanne Braun Levine

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love;…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it…

— LaVell Edwards

One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked…

— Barack Obama

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace…

— Stephen Kinzer

You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what…

— Jeremiah Wright

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not…

— T Bone Burnett

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on,…

— Carl Jung

The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you…

— Robert Fritz

Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The…

— Ryan Bingham

I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I…

— Juliet Marillier

God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same…

— Meher Baba

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny…

— Joel Hodgson

You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a…

— Alan Moore

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant…

— Amos Oz

Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.…

— Barack Obama

I will not compromise on anything related to protecting children.

— Angela Stanton-King

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

— Steven Erikson

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

— Rodney Crowell

“Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

— Alan Moore

“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life”

— Gregory Bateson

“Life always gives option to quit. If you want to compromise you always have that option”

— Shiv Kumar

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

— Nicolas Sarkozy