Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Compromise

Quotes about: Compromise

• It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Feelings

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

• We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Lessons, May, Gains

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

• All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Compromise, Bigs, Humans

• If you must compromise, compromise up.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Compromise, Ifs

• If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Compromise, Ifs

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