“ 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. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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“ Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
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“ All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ”
- Reginald W. Kaufman- Copy
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“ It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. ”
- Arthur Bloch- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ”
- Chuck Swindoll- Copy
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“ Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ”
- Bliss Carman- Copy
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“ When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. ”
- Sarah Brightman- Copy
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“ 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? ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
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“ Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die. ”
- Gary Hirshberg- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ”
- Paul Kagame- Copy
- 1.9K
“ To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. ”
- Golda Meir- Copy
- 815
“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
- 1.8K
“ You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ”
- Eric Berne- Copy
- 2K
“ I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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