Quotes About Compromise

The Christian should never compromise God's principles to conform to the world's concept of good and evil, since unbelievers pervert good judgment through their lusts and blatant defiance against God.

Love without a little fighting is like potatoes without salt.

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner. At that point, reason loses all power to affect change. It becomes as futile an effort as trying to push back the tide.

Why he wants this child he never says, and she never asks. Obviously the miller's daughter is no more a responsible parent than her father is, for she agrees to the bargain.

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.

You don't need an iron fist if you aren't a pacifist.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

One of the first rules of any marriage, (1) Don't forget the benefits of her (his) stupidity. (2) She (he) cannot be taught anything by you, so don't try.

when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

There are many sorts of love," she counsels me. "And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.

You don't get to be a favorite at a tyrant's court without beheading your principles every day.

One should never offend more men than one can persuade

That these girls avoid use of physical violence in resolving conflict, does not mean that these conflicts are resolved in meaningful and enduring ways. Girls might smile, give in, give up - and then continue the conflict behind their opponents' backs. Girls might also smile, give in, make fatal compromises, because their need to belong (or not to be excluded) is more important to them than sticking to their principles.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy