Quotes about Compromise

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”

Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

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.