Compromise Quotes - Page 13

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

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.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

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

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

Don't compromise when you're right.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

Compromise is an imperfect act.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

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

Compromise is an honorable word.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.