Quotes About Compromise

Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

We have been married to the French for more than 230 years . . . and in marriage counseling with them for more than 230 years;

when you're negotiating, you should always go for the thing you're least likely to get first. Then you can always back off to some of these other things if that doesn't work.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals

Hold out your hand and shake the hand of your opponents just as sincerely as your supporters.

As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 40, "The choice must always be made, if not one of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good." And in the last of the Federalist Papers, he said, "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.

He Vows Every now and then he vows to live a better life. But when night comes with her own counsels, with her promises and her compromises, when night comes with her power over the body that seeks and yearns, he returns, lost, to the same fatal pleasures.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

It's hard for me to give this advice, but it's advice I wish I had been given when I was younger. Patti Smith recounts that Williams S. Burroughs taught her this when she was young: 'Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.

When I hear the word division, I think "two visions." Whenever a Christ follower marries someone who doesn't have a commitment to Christ, the believer is trying to build an already-divided house. Certainly this isn't the only way divergent visions can compromise a marriage union, but it's one of the most important.

I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?

And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

Love isn't only passion and joy. It's also sacrifice.

If you say something over and over and over, maybe they'll give in to shut you up.

What Morland wanted was a wife exactly like his mother; a wife who would say 'Yes, dear.' Julia had often smiled to herself when she heard Mrs. Beverley say 'Yes, dear' and had despised her just a little for having no mind of her own . . . but perhaps poor Mrs. Beverley had become a 'Yes, dear' sort of wife because it was the only way to live comfortably with a 'Do this' sort of husband!