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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. — Richard Russo

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else. — Bhagat Singh

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception. — Bill Johnson

In science, compromise is a betrayal of truth. — Ludwig Von Mises

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. — Zig Ziglar

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in. — Michael Moore

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy — Robert A. Caro

There can be no compromise with war. — Jeannette Rankin

Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power. — Auliq Ice

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. — Mike Rutherford

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise. — Amber Valletta

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate. — Julianne Moore

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being. — Sarah Addison Allen

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. — Sarah Brightman

I understood there's a difference between compromise and cooperation, and that to rely on another takes a distinctive kind of strength. — Alexandra Oliva

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make. — Todd Solondz

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with. — Rick Remender

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little, — Lynn Austin

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise. — Abigail Disney

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised. — Yanis Varoufakis

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical. — Ronald Reagan

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. — Alan Moore

Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT, — Napoleon Hill

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine. — Joyce Meyer

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed. — Michael Bassey Johnson

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy. — Timothy Garton Ash

Love happens only once, and the second time is always a compromise made to forget the first love. — Ayan Khan

Many people do not succeed because they do not want to fight against compromise. — Sunday Adelaja

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood. — Ice Cube

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal. — Mike Yaconelli

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. — Jeannette Rankin

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security. — Yitzhak Rabin

All government is founded on compromise and banter. — Edmund Burke

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. — Zig Ziglar

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. — Toby Keith

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility. — Arthur C. Clarke

The body is a bundle of careful compromises. — Randolph M. Nesse

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations. — Ron Kaufman

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation. — Mary Ellis

Compromise is an imperfect act. — Laurell K. Hamilton

A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality. — Francois Hollande

The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good. — Barack Obama

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise. — Dario Argento

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The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I may as well do everything as if it's brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it's a compromise, then I'll ... I'll be in Wisconsin. — Robert Plant

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. — Margaret Thatcher

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. — Neville Cardus

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. — Andrew Cuomo

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. — Raquel Welch

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise. — John Walker Lindh

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result. — Richard Widmark

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines. — Benjamin Netanyahu

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made. — Peter Webber

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms. — Nora Roberts

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. — Larry Wall

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise. — Saul Bellow

Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream. — Imran Khan

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation. — Heather Wilson

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper — John Green

Commitment is easy before a relationship requires compromise and obligation. — Padma Lakshmi

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right. — Mike Singletary

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. — Ayn Rand

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Life is made up of compromises. — Edith Wharton

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not. — Ayrton Senna

The nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached. — Marcus Sakey

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a compromise. — Ayn Rand

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation? — Maria Semple

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. — John Calvin

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion. — Frederic Bastiat

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. — William S. Burroughs

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. — Peter Singer

You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity — John H. Groberg

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied. — Louis Untermeyer

Legislation is the art of compromise. — Harry Reid

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. — Sam Altman

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness. — John Armstrong

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world ... — Erica Jong

Live for who and what you love. — Zayn Malik

Compromise Lesson One: Pull a dick move, and your dick gets denied. Every woman knew that, and now, so did the vampire sitting next to me. — Jeaniene Frost

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell

You can be humble without compromising your values. — Israelmore Ayivor

The opposite of compromise is character. — Frederick Douglass

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain. — Yvon Chouinard

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. — Cher

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, 'Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back. — Aleister Crowley

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. — Benjamin F. Wade

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention. — Alexandra Kinias

Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. — Michael Spiller

Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God. — Joe Joe Dawson