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Quotes About Compromise

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
~ David Green
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
~ Patti Smith
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
~ Langston Hughes
I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.
~ Shepard Fairey
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
~ Edmund Burke
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
~ Henry Hopper
You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
~ Veronica Roth
The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail
~ Unknown
Life is a compromise between your feelings and reality at every stage you have to quit your feelings and accept the reality!
~ Unknown
Sacrifice is a must in life no matter what the relationship is.
~ Unknown
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
~ Samuel Johnson
Learn the wisdom of compromise for it is better to bent a little than to break.
~ Unknown
All battles are worth fighting, but some of them just aren't worth winning.
~ Unknown
I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it.
~ Unknown
There are two sides to every story, and more often than not somewhere in the middle you will find the truth.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, what you have now is better than nothing and sometimes you have to accept that.
~ Unknown
The best things to learn in life is the habit of COMPROMISE. Because its better to bend a little, than to break a loving relationship.
~ Unknown
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
~ Unknown
It is sometimes easier to be truthful to others than is to be truthful to yourself. Be COMPLETELY honest with yourself and go after what you want. In the things that truly matter in life DO NOT compromise. You DESERVE it!!
~ Unknown
Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.
~ Unknown
But life, gradually revealing to me the permanence of our needs, had taught me that if a person is unobtainable we have to settle for someone else, and I felt that what I had asked of Albertine could have been supplied by another, like Mlle de Stermaria.
~ Marcel Proust
No doubt I had long been prepared, by virtue of the sway exercised over my imagination and my ability to be moved by the example of Swann, to believe that what I feared was true, instead of what I would have wished for. Thus the comfort brought by Albertine's affirmations was all but compromised for a moment because I recalled the story of Odette.
~ Marcel Proust