Compromise Quotes

"The English never draw a line without blurring it."

"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."

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"

"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."

"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."

"It's a response to the president's very legitimate concerns, and it ought to be the basis of a sound compromise,"

"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."

"The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."

"I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle."

"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."

"If the funds are not there you compromise treatment, care and prevention and compromising these means compromising millions of lives on the African continent."

"forcing the parties to compromise."

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum"

"They'll still see the risk as toward weakness, ... compromise move."

"This [compromise] relieves all the tension and the expected violence of the coming months."

"The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems beforethey arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must bewilling to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait foreverbefore taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them."

"I'm trying to understand it, because I have to explain it to my colleagues, ... We reached the compromise (in the first tax relief bill) with the understanding that this issue would remain open."

"We want to make sure we don't have to compromise our ideals,"