COMPROMISE QUOTES II

quotations about compromise

Compromises have this recommendation, that if you concede anything, you have something conceded to you in return.

HENRY CLAY

The Compromise of 1850


Compromise
Let's chop it up and get to a solution

JOE

"Compromise"


In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged


It is the toughest thing in the world to spend your life battling with the person you love most on the one thing neither of you can compromise on. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

KARA ISAAC

Can't Help Falling


Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

STEPHEN FRY

Moab Is My Washpot


You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Eclipse


The method of compromise is ... itself a compromise between the two methods, that of persuasion, on the one hand, and that of force, on the other.

OLIVER MARTIN

"Beyond Compromise," Ethics


Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

AYN RAND

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal


Compromising is like making a promise out of an obligation.

CYNTHIA ANN BOYKIN

Restoration Has Finally Come


Whispering silence
The subtle contradiction
Compromise creeps in
Forgetting who I once was

AS I LAY DYING

"Whispering Silence", Awakened


There isn't such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything he wants, and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

THOMAS HUGHES

Tom Brown's School Days


Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

CHARLES DE LINT

"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", The Ivory and the Horn


Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

JOYCE CAROL OATES

Black Water


Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Democracy,", The Writings of James Russell Lowell


Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

JOYCE MEYER

attributed, goodreads


The question "Doesn't life require compromise?" is usually asked by those who fail to differentiate between a basic principle and some concrete, specific wish. Accepting a lesser job than one had wanted is not a "compromise." Taking orders from one's employer on how to do the work for which one is hired, is not a "compromise." Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a "compromise." Integrity does not consist of loyalty to one's subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles. A "compromise" (in the unprincipled sense of that word) is not a breach of one's comfort, but a breach of one's convictions. A "compromise" does not consist of doing something one dislikes, but of doing something one knows to be evil.

AYN RAND

The Virtue of Selfishness


Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight--the lazy, the cunning, the cowardly--for they consider themselves defeated before they start.

ST. JOSEMARÍA ESCRIVÁ

The Way


Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping.

LINDY ZART

Complete


You compromise and wind up sold in parts.

MARY LOU WILLIAMS

"The Devil"


Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays