Compromise Quote by Charles R. Swindoll

There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they…

— Riff Raff

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure…

— Michel de Montaigne

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide generous givers…

— Christian Smith

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with…

— Pascal Bruckner

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

— Hector Hugh Munro

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

— Francoise Sagan

“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives prudence a…

— Jake Desyllas

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

— Rumi

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of…

— Francis Atterbury

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more…

— Howard Raiffa