Compromise Quotes

• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual Vision

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

  Raquel Welch

  Marriage, Dream, Reality

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• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Stupid, Reality

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

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• 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

  Leadership, Encouraging, Strong Women

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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• The devil is compromise.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Devil, Literature

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

  Benito Mussolini

  Struggle, Two Worlds, Democracy

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• They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

  Princess Diana

  Sadness, Poverty, Misery

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

  Ariel Sharon

  Peace, Pain, Hands

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• Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox and The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Life, Change, Being Strong

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• Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Oil, Government, President

  Remarks during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

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• When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Business Success, Next

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.190, Revell

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• Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

  Paul Kagame

  Thinking, Weakness, Sells

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• Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taught Us, Profound, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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

  Thomas S. Monson

  Happiness, Smile, Courage

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2015

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• Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Weakness

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Poor, Umbrella, Roof

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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• Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

  H. Rap Brown

  Believe, Men, Battle

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• From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Fighting, Pride, Done

  Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Hands, Goes On

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

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• Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

  Howard Hughes

  Soccer, Way, Consent

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• A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Order

  "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.

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