Compromise Quotes

Sometimes what we seek to gain through winning a conflict is not worth what we're refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of Greek mythology who lie on either side of a narrow strait to devour sailors and ships, either way you go there will be losses. Through life experience we gradually learn to differentiate between the ideals, values and principles which can, and those which cannot, be compromised.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost.

~ Pawan Mishra

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

~ C.s. Lewis

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

~ Alan Cairns

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights

~ Garry Kasparov

Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.

~ T.f. Hodge

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

~ Sherry Turkle

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

~ Steven Erikson

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being. Thomas Jefferson

~ John Ferling

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.

~ Josemaría Escrivá

Never be too compromising and forgiving coz over time, your stand becomes worthless to others!

~ Aanu

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.

~ Vladimir Lenin

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.

~ Sam Tanenhaus

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

~ James C. Dobson

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.

~ Tim Fargo

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.

~ Tim Fargo

Life, relationships and success is not for compromise.

~ Dee Dee Artner

The true measure of success is also you maintaining who you are by the time you reach the pinnacle of success. Never compromise who you are or you will become the product of someone else's success. Become the entrepreneur who sells you and don't become the product that's packaged, bought and sold by others. Will Robins

~ Delaine Robins

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

~ Max Barry

the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.

~ Wole Soyinka

[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.

~ Paul Krugman

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

~ Monica Crowley

Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.

~ Nia Vardalos

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

~ Star Jones

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

~ Rush Limbaugh

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

~ Barack Obama

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

~ Walter Annenberg

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

~ Margaret Thatcher

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

~ Charles Sumner

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

~ Thomas S. Monson

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

~ Idina Menzel

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

~ Clayton Christensen

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

~ William Butler Yeats