Quotes about Compromise

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

When I hear the word division, I think "two visions." Whenever a Christ follower marries someone who doesn't have a commitment to Christ, the believer is trying to build an already-divided house. Certainly this isn't the only way divergent visions can compromise a marriage union, but it's one of the most important.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.