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  • If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

    "Spike Jonze: Master of the Wild Things" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.
  • If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.

    Play   Class   Quality  
  • Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

    "Fictional character: Golda Meir". "Munich", www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  • Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  • The English never draw a line without blurring it.

    Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell
  • Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

    Art   Government   Today  
  • Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  • It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

    Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press
  • Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

    Integrity   Cost   Pay  
  • I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

    Source: inters.org
  • In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

    Giving   Towns   Cash  
  • A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

  • There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

    Fall   Important   Trying  
  • Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

  • You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I'm not getting rid of Pooh." "See, there you go being antagonistic. Marriage means learning to compromise." "I didn't say I wouldn't compromise. I promise to take the ribbon out of her topknot before you walk her.

    Mean   Promise   Needs  
  • When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

    Father   Makeup   Ideas  
  • "Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.

    Dog   Giving Up   Mean  
  • Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

    "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.
  • Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

    Twitter post from Jul 22, 2015
  • You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

    "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox & The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.
  • Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises with the opposition in the back rooms. That's what she did in Congress. It's what I imagine she'll try to do in the White House.

    Believe   White   House  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

    "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.
  • Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

  • You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

    Guilt   Compromise   Sin  
    Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.128, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
  • When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.

    Fall   Challenges   Roles  
    "Are We Politicians or Citizens?" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 1, 2007.
  • The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

    "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.
  • I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much time with my family as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even if you do get to be an astronaut and get to go and do a lot of interesting things, at some point that will come to an end. If in the process you short change your family or compromise your values along the way, when you get through on the other side, it won't really be worth it. At least not to me.

    Husband   Father   Mean  
  • Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

    People   Silence   Facts  
    "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.
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