Quotes About Compromise

Everyone in the world would say that you have changed a lot, but no one in the world will look into your eyes and say you have compromised a lot.

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you compromise to end in settling for far less than what you deserve. You must honor your inner self. Be not a person of circumstances but be a product of self right decision.

Emotional support involves accepting differences with others and not insisting on what you want or you want from others. Don't set absolute criteria that require before you're satisfied.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Life isn't a Burger King. You can't always have it your way.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

lo que estoy buscando denodadamente es un acuerdo, una especie de convenio entre mi amor y su libertad.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Life was not perfect, but everyone deserved a shot at happiness. You had to take your chances. Sometimes you had to accept a compromise. And just because you'd made one mistake didn't mean you were doomed to repeat that mistake, or live with its consequences forever.

Words began fights and words ended them.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.

Peace is at hand? Kissinger sounded like Neville Chamberlain returning from his talk with Hitler, saying, "Peace in our time." Did he mean peace at all costs, regardless of their ally's fate?

Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.

Understanding and truly accepting God's forgiveness is the incubator to a meaningful walk with Jesus. As we escape the dregs of compromise to walk in purity and obedience, we are free to grow on God's timetable if we ignore the lies of the unholy world. And only by avoiding faulty human logic can we give our lives over to the seeming risk of a God who is actually unable to be anything but faithful.

The pattern is sadly familiar in church history: a cooling of the church's love for Christ, then its replacement by a love for the things of the world, resulting in compromise and spiritual corruption, followed by a departure from the faith and loss of effective spiritual testimony.

It's one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,

The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common goals and strategies. They oblige everyone to think, or at least speak, about the common good. In movement politics, the forces are all centrifugal, encouraging splits into smaller and smaller factions obsessed with single issues and practicing rituals of ideological one-upmanship.

The framers of our Constitution arranged things so that political action would have to be filtered through institutions that require consultation and compromise, and would depend on a system of frequent elections, checks and balances, the autonomy of the civil service, civilian control of the military, the writing of laws and regulations, and their impartial enforcement. And all this would have to be done at three levels of government.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

When Satyagraha worked, both sides won.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.