| 33 Compromise Quotes
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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.”
Chinua Achebe Quotes |
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“Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.”
Gary Hirshberg Quotes |
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“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
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“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
Tryon Edwards Quotes |
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“Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”
George Herbert Quotes |
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“Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
Charles Sumner Quotes |
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“The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.”
Arthur Bloch Quotes |
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“What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.”
Bliss Carman Quotes |
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“Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.”
H. Rap Brown Quotes |
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“Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.”
Howard Hughes Quotes |
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“I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.”
Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
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“Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.”
Reginald W. Kaufman Quotes |
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“The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.”
Arthur Bloch Quotes |
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“Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.”
Eric Berne Quotes |
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“The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.”
Charles Swindoll Quotes |
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“Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.”
Reginald Wright Kaufman Quotes |
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“It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
Charles Sumner Quotes |
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“Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“Better bend than break.”
Scottish Proverb Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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