Compromise Quotes · Page 25

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

— Gretchen Carlson

Jim had a spirit that was incapable of compromise.

— John Densmore

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

— Chris Christie

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

— Brian Tracy

“Life, relationships and success is not for compromise.”

— Dee Dee Artner

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

— Angela Merkel

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

— Winston Churchill

Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because…

— Stromae

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

— George Lucas

You've got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody's more important than the next guy, and that's never been…

— Rob Halford

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Neville Cardus

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise…

— Nick Xenophon

Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

— William Shakespeare

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they…

— Don DeLillo

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English…

— Matthew Yglesias

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality…

— Barbara Gittings

Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And…

— Sherry Turkle

If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll…

— David Limbaugh

I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push…

— Nicole Holofcener

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,…

— Andrew Carnegie

We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort…

— Adam Michnik

“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It…

— Jerry Bridges

That has been one of the pleasant surprises of my semester - finding that some of my Liberty friends are still my…

— Kevin Roose

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's…

— Barry Goldwater

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic…

— Saul Alinsky

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything…

— Frantz Fanon

The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us…

— Albert M. Wolters

Never compromise who you are, you should be accepted in all forms, in all circumstances.

— Milana May

A compromise is to allow me hate you as you hate me serenely.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“One must either rule side by side or be subdued entirely.”

— Karen Essex

Any negotiation involves compromise and no one will get everything they want.

— Nicky Morgan

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Anonymous

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

— Sam Altman