Compromise Quotes - Page 30

• In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

  Tom Hanks

  Men, Guy, Bitter

  "Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts Talk ‘Larry Crowne,’ Growing Their Careers". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Be kind to people, do the best that you can do and don’t compromise yourself for anyone else and you’ll end up being the best person, trust me.

  Naya Rivera

  People, Be Kind, Trust Me

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• I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Integrity, Character, Play

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• A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

  Bill Maher

  Flu, Shots, Immune System

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Principles, Faces

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

  Spike Jonze

  Labels, Records, Respectful

  "Spike Jonze: 'I'm never going to compromise'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [in Israel] must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, Issues, Israel

  "The World Without Zionism". Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.

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• We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Yesterday, Forever

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• I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

  Francis Maude

  Leadership, Party, Views

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• Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

  Horst Kohler

  Leadership, Country, Ideas

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• Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

  Chuck Mangione

  Talking, People, Way

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• Compromise does not mean cowardice.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Mean, Ubuntu

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• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  John Shadegg

  Giving, Special, Borders

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• Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Suffering, Fads

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• One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Important, Denial

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• Don't compromise your principles.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Principles, Algebra

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• If you must compromise, compromise up.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Ifs

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• One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Honesty

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• Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, People, Understanding

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• Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Vanity, Curiosity, Unhappy

  "Briefe von und an Hegel, Volume 4". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1977.

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• Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

  Neil Simon

  Mediocrity, Candidates

  Neil Simon (1988). “Biloxi Blues”, Signet

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• I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

  Heather Wilson

  Independent, Issues, Important

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• And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Tired, People

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• Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Addiction, Drug

  Pope Francis' address to 31st International Drug Enforcement Conference in Rome, en.radiovaticana.va. June 19, 2014.

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