Compromise Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also…

— Barack Obama

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we…

— Garth Stein

Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain…

— Charles de Lint

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

— Knut Hamsun

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

— Victor Hugo

“[Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets in relative…

— Alex Himelfarb

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the…

— Lajos Kossuth

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides