Compromise Quotes
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As a woman, I think my style defines my leadership in that it's a gentler, more compassionate approach. Rather than tell people what's good for them, I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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"Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.
Neal Knox
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It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
John Calvin
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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
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Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.
Conn Iggulden
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I never compromise with my work.
Remo D'Souza
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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
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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.
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The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.
Cary Fukunaga
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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in.
Ninni Holmqvist
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A compromise is done willingly and out of love. You don't go away thinking, "I betrayed myself."
Caroline Myss
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Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.
Evan Bayh
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
Stephen Covey
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I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
John Calvin
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I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.
Sarah Silverman