"Life is a compromise of what your ego……" — Walter Bagehot
"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."
More Compromise Quotes
- One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to… — Paul Auster
- Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.… — Michael Badnarik
- I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try… — Erykah Badu
- Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. — Christian Bale
- The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that,… — William Barclay
- I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.… — Mortimer Adler
- When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation -… — Benazir Bhutto
- Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what… — Ambrose Bierce
- The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. — Arthur Bloch