quotations about compromise
Compromise is a mindset, not an activity.
FRANK SONNENBERG
Soul Food
Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The Outlook, Jul. 28, 1900
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
ALBERT CAMUS
attributed, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
LUDWIG ERHARD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
It's not always rainbows and butterflies
It's compromise that moves us along
MAROON 5
"She Will Be Loved"
You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B'.
SCOTT ADAMS
Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.
ARTHUR LYNCH
Moods of Life
NEVER GIVE A INCH!
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
Compromise is the work of mature people.
RITA MAE BROWN
Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes sense."
BARACK OBAMA
The New Yorker, May 31, 2004
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand--that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
ANNIE DILLARD
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Compromise is not about losing. It is about deciding that the other person has just as much right to be happy with the end result as you do.
DONNA MARTINI
The Ten Commandments of Divorce
Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.
KEIGO HIGASHINO
A Midsummer's Equation
Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
attributed, Thoughts for Meaningful Life
Every human relationship implies compromises, but the limit to any compromise is one's own dignity.
FAUSTO CERCIGNANI
attributed, Quotes We Cherish
I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
GERALD FORD
remarks to House Committee on the Judiciary, Nov. 15, 1973
I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.
DONALD TRUMP
Life Magazine, January 1989
Condemning politicians for compromising is like condemning a bus driver for driving a bus.
ARTHUR C. TENNIES
A Church for Sinners, Seekers, and Sundry Non-saints
Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
L. NEIL SMITH
Lever Action