Quotes about compromise

"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."

Bierce, Ambrose on compromise   

"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."

Bloch, Arthur on compromise
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

Burke, Edmund on compromise   

"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."

Carman, Bliss on compromise   

"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on compromise   

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last."

Churchill, Winston on compromise
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"The English never draw a line without blurring it."

Churchill, Winston on compromise   

"If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory."

Disraeli, Benjamin on compromise   

"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both."

Edwards, Tryon on compromise
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"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Grass, Gunther on compromise   

"Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor."

Haggai, John on compromise   

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

Herbert, George on compromise
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"It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man."

Hubbard, Elbert on compromise   

"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."

Hughes, Howard on compromise   

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

Johnson, Samuel on compromise   

"Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward."

Kaufman, Reginald W. on compromise   

"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

Khrushchev, Nikita on compromise   

"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."

Lowell, James Russell on compromise   

"You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment."

Maltz, Maxwell on compromise   

"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success."

Mcdonald, John on compromise   

"Better bend than break."

Proverb, Scottish on compromise   

"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned."

Sumner, Charles on compromise   

"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."

Swindoll, Charles on compromise   

"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."

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