Compromise Quotes
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We need to compromise and Scott has put together the best compromise that I have ever heard. (Quote by - Councilor David Cyr)
What I fear most about a commission is compromise, .. Because compromise means we lose. (Quote by - John Kasich)
I don't think there is compromise here, .. You came back with (adding) cannons and flagpoles, they were always there. We wanted compromise on size, scope and location. I don't think you have done that. (Quote by - Richard O'Neil)
The numbers suggest that it was a compromise. That is, in fact, what the agreement is -- a compromise on both parts. From our point of view, we're glad that it was ratified, and that means we can now move ahead with bringing employees back to work and bring our regular schedule back up and running. (Quote by - Jason MacDonald)
We'll come together, and there will be compromise, but compromise that will be to the satisfaction of the majority of people in the House and the Senate. (Quote by - Bill Frist)
A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable 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. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. (Quote by - Toby Keith)
There is real enthusiasm for peace but possibly not real enthusiasm for the necessary compromises. I would not advise on the specifics of the compromises. It's a complex matter. (Quote by - Erik Solheim)
Management is taking a very hard line, refusing to compromise. We are open to compromise, and unless they do, we will have a strike. (Quote by - Peter Callero)
Solutions must be based on compromises. (Quote by - Joschka Fischer)
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
There ought to be a compromise on this; I think there will be a compromise on it. Unfortunately, there are people that want to be inflexible on this issue. (Quote by - Rick Lazio)
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. (Quote by - Howard Hughes)
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
This is about principled compromise, not compromised principles. (Quote by - John Hume)
One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant .. That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy. (Quote by - Nicholas Burns)
Gay marriage has begun, and life has not changed for the citizens of the commonwealth, with the exception of those who can now marry, .. This amendment which was an appropriate measure or compromise a year ago, is no longer, I feel, a compromise today. (Quote by - Brian Lees)
The U.S. Army is not being paid a nickel to voice opposition to this. Nobody is making any money off of this. The only investment we're trying to protect is the ability of our men and women to train in a fashion without any compromise. (Quote by - Contributed by: Green Acres)
As commissioner I have the skills to negotiate and the skills to work with and through people and to bring groups together and work for betterment of everyone. Regardless of what you say, if you don't bring all groups to the table, you can't negotiate a compromise. But if everyone is involved a compromise can be reached and everyone is much happier. (Quote by - Bill Dodson)
They absolutely don't have to compromise. There will always be a solution. (Quote by - Barbara Grigas)
Efforts for compromise are being made while the offensive campaign is gathering steam and more newspapers are publishing the cartoon. There will be no compromise before we get an apology. (Quote by - Hassan Nasrallah)
When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner and you can bet your last nickel on it. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them! (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. (Quote by - George Herbert)
It is clearly understandable that negotiations are extremely difficult, .. It is hard to recognize what compromise can be reached, but I think, and others agree with me, that a compromise is necessary for Ukraine. (Quote by - Leonid Kuchma)
She was so well-known in the civil rights community and so well-respected that it made a huge difference, .. She had lived through what compromises bring you, and she was very determined that women's lives were not to be compromised. (Quote by - Kim Gandy)
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people. (Quote by - Ariel Sharon)
I believe there must be compromises, and it will be impossible to discuss talks without them. We have to reach an agreement to first stop bombings to enable us to conduct talks. (Quote by - Viktor Chernomyrdin)
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it. (Quote by - Jim Jordan)
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
I urge all parties to focus on the issue as we get down to the wire in the spirit of give and take, and make the kind of compromises that are necessary to get compromises, so we can move on. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
This is not something Floridians should compromise on, .. This compromise is not in the interests of Floridians. It's really more in the interests of the oil companies. (Quote by - Ron Klein)
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light. (Quote by - dna St. Vincent Millay)
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
There were lakes in the middle of the fairways where your landing area would be on two or three holes. And there's nowhere to drop the ball to get relief without compromising the integrity of the drop. So the rules were really compromised. It's just not a good competition that way. (Quote by - Kathy Dais)
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless..And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Quote by - Janis Joplin)
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. (Quote by - Arthur Bloch)
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?. (Quote by - Sarah Jessica Parker)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
It was the most realistic compromise at that stage. Both dropped their claims and reached a peaceful compromise. (Quote by - Asahi Shimbun)
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
They're continuing to build a franchise in a way that doesn't compromise the loan quality, it doesn't compromise the balance sheet materially, it does add to earnings and it does add to their presence in that market, .. I can't argue with what they're doing. (Quote by - Tony Davis)
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention. (Quote by - Zelda Fitzgerald)
Integrating graphics with the processor compromises performance of the graphics. The problem isn't that people aren't interested in the low-end PCs selling at $600, it's that people aren't interested in processors whose performance is compromised because the graphics is built in. (Quote by - Drew Peck)
Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise. (Quote by - Robert Townsend)
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise. (Quote by - Mary Frances Berry)
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. (Quote by - Eric Berne)
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. (Quote by - Charles Swindoll)
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France. (Quote by - Nicolas Sarkozy)
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
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 compromise. (Quote by - Robert Fritz)
Both the historic resource and wilderness character were slipping away from us. We had to figure out how to compromise our divergent perspectives without compromising Cumberland Island. (Quote by - Don Barger)
They wanted to strong-arm the parties into a dirty compromise, a compromise that in their heart of hearts they knew wouldn't work. (Quote by - Rhoderick Chalmers)
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
I think this is an acceptable compromise for the employers -- a compromise that as far as the financial capacity of the public purse is concerned goes to the limit of what is acceptable. (Quote by - Otto Schily)
Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise. (Quote by - Shimon Peres)
So when I decided to put out a record, I knew I couldn't give it away for free, but I compromised with myself. I made a compromise that I would sell it for as cheaply as I could so that as many people could get a copy as possible. (Quote by - Noah Grant)
A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise. (Quote by - Kenneth Davis)
Any agreement requires a compromise, and compromise means you have to trust the other side to follow through. Frankly, I do not think this basic confidence exists on either side. (Quote by - Chu Shulong)
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
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. (Quote by - Louis Untermeyer)
We're pretty proud of what we have and we want to hang on to it. We'd love to be able to work out compromises to these problems, as long as they don't compromise access to our land and water. (Quote by - John Gibson)
Where there is negotiation, there is hope for agreement. (Quote by - Somalian Proverb)
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?. (Quote by - Princess Diana)
The only condition that we did not accept was that we would have no access to detainees and I am very confident that since we accepted the invitation in the spirit of compromise, the United States will compromise. (Quote by - Manfred Nowak)
We fully realize that on the way to peace we will have to make compromises, but it is too early to define what kind of compromises, .. We will define it once we realize what President Assad is ready to give. (Quote by - Ehud Barak)
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
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. (Quote by - H. Rap Brown)
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. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation. (Quote by - Clinton Rossiter)
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
They compromised a little on the base, and we compromised on the upside. That's how deals get done. (Quote by - Dan O'Dowd)
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. (Quote by - Charles Sumner)
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. (Quote by - Jane Wells)
I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence. (Quote by - Ariel Sharon)
This is a huge, huge thing he did. He is the person who had the guts to say we had to have a compromise. He gets the credit for the compromise. (Quote by - Tamar Jacoby)
I don't want to compromise the personal narrative for the overarching abstract generalizations about the United States as a whole, .. That's a real conflict in my vision. I think sometimes [ Illinois ] is a little unbalanced, where its affiliation with Illinois historically is compromised for the sake of the stories. And I think it's better to do that, anyway. I'm more comfortable with storytelling than I am with history or politics. (Quote by - Sufjan Stevens)
If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to make hundreds of compromises with security. It's only a question of how many compromises. (Quote by - Brian Jenkins)
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. (Quote by - Reginald W. Kaufman)
There is a time to compromise, .. and there is a time to stand firm. Now, I know that it was a grand photo opportunity at the White House, but I am afraid that the taxpayer once again got the shaft. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
We do not want to compromise on the 90 days at all. It will be a compromise with this nation's security. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Quote by - Chinua Achebe)
Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises. (Quote by - Eric Chen)
Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank. (Quote by - Christopher Myers)
When you know you're going to be in heaven with your Maker one day, you think about doing what's right?not what you can get away with, .. There's no hiding from God. That belief is what kept me from falling into a corporate culture that outwardly encouraged individuals to display respect and integrity while encouraging them to compromise whenever it was expedient, rationalizing the compromise because 'everyone else does it.'. (Quote by - Sherron Watkins)
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. (Quote by - Julie Delpy)
Other countries don't compromise their principles for other people. We should not compromise. (Quote by - Bill Lawrence)
The national interest demands that an Opposition worth its salt makes no compromise on its prerogatives. (Quote by - JG Vassallo)
Due to the magnitude of the Final, we are not prepared to compromise or take any risks on the stadium being unable to stage such a significant event. (Quote by - Brian Barwick)
