Compromise Quotes - page 2

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result. (Richard Widmark)
Compromise is necessary,” Max agreed, "so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself. View quote
Charles de Lint
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. View quote
Colin Powell
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. View quote
Colin Powell
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. View quote
Amos Oz
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing. View quote
Arnold Schoenberg
I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
I believe [...] that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. [...] I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and-if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills-on the businessman's special to Tokyo. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. (G. K. Chesterton)
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
Compromise is a stalling between two fools. View quote
Stephen Fry
We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead. View quote
Ralph Bunche
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences. View quote
Lauryn Hill
Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world... View quote
Erica Jong
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. View quote
Azar Nafisi
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in... and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of... glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not. (Greg Egan)
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The permanent revolution, in the sense which Marx attached to this concept, means a revolution which makes no compromise with any single form of class rule, which does not stop at the democratic stage, which goes over to socialist measures and to war against reaction from without that is, a revolution whose every successive stage is rooted in the preceding one and which can end only in complete liquidation. View quote
Leon Trotsky
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel.... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood. View quote
Abu Bakar Bashir