419 Quotes About Compromise

There’s always another option.There’s always another one.It’s never only 'this' or 'that,'The moon or else the sun.Don’t sigh and choose the greaterOr lesser of two plights.But look to see the stars beyondFor options vast and bright.

El concepto de arte comprometido es una ingenuidad porque nadie sabe del todo lo que ejecuta.(The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what they are doing.)

Do your expectations match the energy you give? Energies don't lie and the universe don't compromise. What you give, you get a return on.

Every time you decide not to compromise your honesty in any form of a relationship, you become a co-partner with the Universe in creating truthful meaning for any existence.

Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

If you have to compromise your ethics to get it, then it is not worth having.

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.