Compromise Quotes

• A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Crisis

• I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Months

• Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Dumb
  • Categories

• 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
  • Kind
  • Values
  • Situation

• Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Matter
  • Principles
  • Compromise

• I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

  

  Esther Peterson
  • Taught
  • Compromise
  • Resolution

• Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Women
  • Law
  • Compromise

• If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

  

  Eva LaRue
  • Compromise
  • Be Married

• We have to stop all of the fighting and talking without listening and find a sense of compromise. It's very evident that it could possibly happen. No matter what your political views are, we're in a very dangerous state of politics.

  

  Edwin Hodge
  • Fighting
  • Compromise
  • Political View

• Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

  

  Jonathan Shapiro
  • Laws
  • Views
  • Compromise

• 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
  • President
  • Conflict
  • Settling

• Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so many different things in my career, and when you compromise and try to let go of who you are, you wind up being unhappy, and what is success without happiness. You have to have both, and that is important to me.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Different
  • Important
  • Trying

• Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.

  

  Wolfgang Thierse
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Champion
  • Compromise
  • Forces

• Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we're going to live our lives. We can try to persuade ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it , and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Fun

• 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
  • Trying
  • Excellence
  • Balloon

• 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
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Human
  • Dignity
  • Compromise

• Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Tolerance
  • Philosophical
  • Compromise

• Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Parent
  • Boyfriend
  • Compromise

• Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fool
  • Compromise

• 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
  • People
  • Together
  • Change

• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Politics
  • Values
  • Constitution

• When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Position
  • Result
  • Compromise

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