Compromise Quotes

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But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe. — Danny Glover
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while… — Jack Kornfield
When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives of millions of… — Simon Mainwaring
Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose… — Alan Cohen
It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good… — Jennifer Lopez
Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. — Mary Parker Follett
If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery… — Howard W. Hunter
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures… — Kevin Mitnick
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and… — Maya Angelou
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side… — Mary Parker Follett
I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and… — Ted Danson
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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… — John Marshall
Life is a compromise between fate and free will. — Elbert Hubbard
Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual.… — Rajneesh

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