Compromise Quotes · Page 10

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

— Gunter Grass

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

— Hedy Lamarr

I am always open to a conversation. I am always open to a bipartisan compromise.

— Brian Schatz

Ladies, never back down. Compromise yes, but never back down.

— Anonymous

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

— Woodrow Wilson

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

— Richard Widmark

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

— Eric Weiner

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

~Love cant be proven with poems, promises, or presents but with sacrifice, compromise, and patience..

— Green Monk

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving…

— Drew Barrymore

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be…

— Neil Peart

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if…

— Donna Ball

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else…

— Abu Bakar Bashir

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure…

— Vladimir Putin

Our leaders cannot and should not give up when compromise seems out of reach, especially when the economic security of South Carolinians…

— Jaime Harrison

“Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying…

— Ogwo David Emenike

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a…

— Daniel Suarez

The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to…

— George Soros

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no…

— Harry Reid

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is…

— Vernon Howard

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to…

— Novala Takemoto

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought…

— Ambrose Bierce

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…

— Rie Rasmussen

I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much…

— Rick Husband

He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if…

— Ernest K. Gann

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that…

— Jack Kornfield

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you…

— Hilary Mantel

“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try…

— Steven Weinberg

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk around with a bodyguard. My goal…

— Olivier Martinez

How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it…

— Salman Rushdie

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Winston Churchill

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

— Tariq Ramadan

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

— Janis Joplin

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

— Ron Kaufman

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

— Jill Johnston

Never compromise for anything less than what you deserve.

— Anonymous

Never compromise who you are for someone else.

— Anonymous