Compromise quotes

Discover thought-provoking quotes that illuminate the art of compromise, bridging differences and finding common ground for the betterment of all. Explore the power and wisdom within the act of compromising.

C-O-M-promise. Compromise? How ’bout that’s your word for the day, yeah? It’s something that’s kinda in-between, something like… half-way happy.

- Jim Hopper

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

- Ayrton Senna

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

- Peter Singer

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

- Kelli White

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

- Mike Leigh

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

- Arthur Bloch

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

- Bill Owens

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

- Princess Diana

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

- Janis Joplin

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

- Richard Widmark

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

- Moliere

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

- John Hickenlooper

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

- Tim Robbins

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

- Toby Keith

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

- Moliere

The devil is compromise.

- Henrik Ibsen