Compromise famous quotes

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
-- A. K. Antony

#Fighting #Compromise #Corruption

Compromise has a negative connotation.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush

#Negative #Compromise #Connotation

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Islam #Quran #Compromise

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.
-- Adam Silver

#Nba #Victory #Compromise

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Blessing #World #Compromise

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
-- Alain Prost

#Team #Compromise #Building

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
-- Alan Moore

#Faces #Compromise #Armageddon

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
-- Alan Sugar

#Principles #Compromise

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Fighting #Compromise #Refusal

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Fighting #Compromise

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
-- Angela Merkel

#Dignity #Compromise #Human Dignity

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
-- Angela Merkel

#Inspiring #Compromise #Contribution

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
-- Angela Merkel

#Groups #Compromise #Interest

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
-- Ann Marie Buerkle

#Principles #Compromise #Willing

But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Israel #Citizens #Compromise

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.
-- Ariel Sharon

#People #Safety #Compromise

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
-- Arthur Bloch

#Suggestions #Compromise

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.
-- Arthur Lynch

#Compromise #Truth Is #Cases

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.
-- Audrey Tautou

#Compromise #Ready #Not Ready

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Long #Want #Compromise

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.
-- Ayrton Senna

#Giving #Levels #Compromise

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.
-- B. J. Palmer

#Decision #Mind #Compromise

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
-- Barack Obama

#Pieces #Compromise #Legislation

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.
-- Barack Obama

#Fighting #Honor #Compromise

A good compromise, a good piece of...
-- Barbara Jordan

#African American #Pieces #Compromise

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Empowering #Leader #Compromise

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
-- Benjamin Franklin

#War #Arbitration #Compromise

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Effort #Language #Compromise

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.
-- Bijan

#World #Compromise #Settling

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.
-- Bill Vaughan

#United States #Compromise #Indispensable

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
-- Brian Tracy

#Compromise #Refuse

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
-- Brian Tracy

#Compromise #Clear #Refuse

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
-- Brit Marling

#Couple #Way #Compromise

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
-- Candice Olson

#People #Compromise #Renovation

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Capricorns #Compromise

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

#Important #Compromise #Authenticity

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!
-- Catherine Doherty

#Compromise

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
-- Chanda Kochhar

#Mother #Wife #Compromise

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.
-- Channing Tatum

#Book #Character #Compromise

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

#Soul #Compromise #Influence

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Mean #Men #Compromise

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.
-- Charles Rosen

#Character #Artistic #Compromise

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.
-- Cher

#Who I Am #Merit #Compromise

I don't compromise my principles for politics.
-- Chris Christie

#Principles #Compromise

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
-- Christian Bale

#Art #Proud #Compromise

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.
-- Christopher Myers

#Doe #Want #Compromise

A good compromise leaves everyone angry.
-- Christopher Paolini

#Compromise #Angry

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.
-- Cory Monteith

#Compromise

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
-- Danica Patrick

#Dream #England #Compromise

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
-- Danny Glover

#Believe #Choices #Compromise

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity
-- David Brainerd

#Thinking #Compromise #Sin

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
-- David James Duncan

#Ecosystems #Environmental #Compromise

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.
-- David Maister

#Believe #Excellence #Compromise

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
-- David Sylvian

#Needs #Littles #Compromise

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.
-- Dean Karnazes

#Compromise #Failing #Permit

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Tables #Chaos #Compromise

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.
-- DeVon Franklin

#Sacrifice #Careers #Compromise

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani

#Quality #India #Compromise

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Real #Stories #Compromise

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.
-- Dick Gregory

#Art #Office #Compromise

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

#Compromise #Beggar #Conscience

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
-- Don Ellis

#Levels #Compromise #Come Up

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
-- Donald L. Carcieri

#Healthy #Way #Compromise

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.
-- Donna Ball

#Divorce #Simple #Compromise

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
-- Dorothy Gilman

#Compromise #Fanaticism

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Strong #Men #Compromise

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
-- Elizabeth Olsen

#Needs #Compromise #Figures

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
-- Eric Berne

#Games #Compromise #Intimacy

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.
-- Eric Weiner

#Skills #Use #Compromise

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.
-- Ernie J Zelinski

#Inspirational #Integrity #Compromise

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

#Taught #Compromise #Win Win

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.
-- Eva LaRue

#Married #Compromise

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.
-- F. Sionil José

#Light #Compromise #Sin

The opposite of compromise is character.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Character #Opposites #Compromise

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
-- G. Campbell Morgan

#Church #Compromise #Hours

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
-- Gao Xingjian

#Want #Compromise

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
-- Garry Trudeau

#People #Trying #Compromise

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
-- George Herbert

#Compromise #Fats

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
-- Gerald R. Ford

#Oil #Government #Compromise

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
-- Golda Meir

#Bullying #Compromise

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.
-- Goldie Hawn

#Trying #Compromise #Controversial

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
-- Gregory Harrison

#Song #Albums #Compromise

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.
-- Gunter Grass

#Art #Compromise #Life Is

Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.
-- Hayley Williams

#Pain #Simple #Compromise

The devil is compromise.
-- Henrik Ibsen

#Devil #Compromise

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Dishonesty #Compromise

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.
-- Henry Clay

#Humanity #Common #Compromise

Make no compromise in quality.
-- Henry E. Steinway

#Quality #Compromise #No Compromise

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
-- Henry Ossawa Tanner

#Compromise #Middle

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
-- Heston Blumenthal

#Needs #Compromise #Standards

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
-- Hortense Calisher

#Balance #Body #Compromise

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Rights #Compromise #Humans

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
-- Jalal Talabani

#Iraq #Compromise #Building

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
-- Jalal Talabani

#Compromise #Capitulation

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
-- James Franco

#Artistic #Compromise #Making Money

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Compromise #Poor #Umbrella

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.
-- Janet Echelman

#Ideas #Limits #Compromise

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.
-- Janet Evanovich

#Clothes #Bed #Compromise

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
-- Janis Joplin

#Honesty #Compromise

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
-- Jean Sasson

#Humanity #Arbitration #Compromise