Quotes about Compromise

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat

Accepting him, I find, is the best way to tame him.

How can we get what we truly want while satisfying the needs and concerns of others in our lives—family members, work colleagues, clients, and others?

Instead of attacking, focused on taking away the stick.

If you open a door, however, as Diane Nash did with her persistent questions, you offer the other a way out and all your power can be deployed in persuading them to take it. In short, rather than working to frustrate the other, focus on redirecting their attention to a positive outcome.

Effective negotiation requires a persistent focus on what is most important.

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.