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.
- CS Lewis
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.
- Aesop
Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.
- Alain de Botton
The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.
- Jerry Bridges
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
- Jesse Jackson
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
- Aesop
Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.
- Pramila Jayapal
I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.
- Shonda Rhimes
There are no techniques in politics.
- Michael Ignatieff
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson