Quotes About Compromise

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.

Say you want to be with someone, and you're doing something that they don't really like. They're gonna ask you to stop it, just for a moment to take a look at them, to see them clearly. That's what God wanted for me.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.