Quotes about Compromise

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.

The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

There are no techniques in politics.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.