419 Quotes About Compromise

Too often what we’ve defined as our calling is in fact the strategy that we have crafted as a means of running from our calling.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights

Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you were with your loved one, but in hell, eventually you would cry to have you and your loved one together in heaven. So to create your own heaven on earth, make sure you and your loved one are in a place you both love, because what could be heaven for one, could be hell for the other.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

Never be too compromising and forgiving coz over time, your stand becomes worthless to others!

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.

'Two things.' 'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.' 'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword. That's the first thing.' Yeats didn't react. If anything, he seemed baffled. 'The second thing is I wouldn't characterize Harry as indecisive and untrained with weapons.'

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]