Compromise Quotes
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Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
Andrew Bacevich
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Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.
Joseph Cannon
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I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
Henry Hopper
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."
Walter Karp
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It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.
Stuart Rothenberg
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I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.
James Timothy Shaw
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Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.
Mette Frederiksen
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Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.
Milos Forman
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I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.
Nia Long
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Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they stand by their position. They are ready to listen to different views, to hear all the voices in society.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.
Fever Ray
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I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.
Vladimir Putin
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Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
Charles Grandison Finney
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I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.
Nick Xenophon
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I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.
Alicja Bachleda-Curus
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
Esther Peterson
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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!
Catherine Doherty
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
Stephen Covey
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
Nicholas Sparks
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I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody she dates has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... and if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.
Eva LaRue
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Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
Daniel R. Scoggin
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People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.
William H. Whyte
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My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.
Nikhil Banerjee