Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

~ John Keegan

John Keegan Loyalty Compromise

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

~ Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen Ethics Negative Compromise

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky Compromise Fighting Create

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

~ David Green

David Green Father Compromise

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

~ Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski Important Compromise

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

~ Tim Allen

Tim Allen Relationship Compromise

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

~ Ludwig Erhard

Ludwig Erhard Cake Compromise Way

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

~ Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel Good Compromise

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

~ Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Successful Compromise

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

~ James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell Good Wise Compromise

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

~ Chris Christie

Chris Christie Compromise Principles

When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'

~ Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor Experience Me Compromise

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

~ Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke Compromise Human Virtue

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin School Vote Compromise

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

~ Barack Obama

Barack Obama Democracy Compromise Long

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

~ Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak Brave Risk Compromise

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

~ Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon People Compromise Know

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Strong Compromise Know

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Strong Compromise Weakness

Ecosystems are holy. The word environmental is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

~ David James Duncan

David James Duncan Compromise Head Word

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

~ Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan Together Live Compromise

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

~ George Herbert

George Herbert Fat Compromise Better

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Best Lawyer Compromise

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

~ Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel Battle Compromise