Quotes About Compromise

Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country.

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

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

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

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

resolution comes only by giving up that dream and taking in that you and your partner are not, in fact, going to see all things the same way.

changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.