Compromise Quotes

994 Compromise quotes by 780 unique authors

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write… — Toni Morrison
Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise. — Hayley Williams
I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging… — Henry Rollins
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change. — Jane Goodall
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull… — Samuel Beckett
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what… — William Lloyd Garrison
Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper — John Green
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that… — Joyce Meyer
If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work… — Marvin J. Ashton
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I'm not getting rid of Pooh." "See, there… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more… — Christopher Hitchens
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive… — Howard Zinn
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in… — Dan Simmons
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak. — Jean Sasson
I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to… — Juliet Marillier
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise. — Mary Balogh
Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the… — Helen Fielding
What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize. — Rick Riordan
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. — Byron Katie
A good compromise leaves everyone angry. — Christopher Paolini
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… — Thomas Hardy
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances… — George Packer
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no… — Dan Millman
He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete… — Nelson Mandela
Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should… — Garth Stein

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