419 Quotes About Compromise

Every relation need adjustments to survive, but those dies where one compromise..

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

Life was too short to sit around waiting for Mr Perfect.

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.

I will demand a puppy if I am forced to move to Fiji.But I will settle for a bunny.

If it is worth a dream, it's not worth a compromise!

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything.