Quotes about Compromise
Each party should gain from the negotiation.
— Dale Carnegie
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Zig Ziglar
If you must compromise, compromise up.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
— Jane Goodall
The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That's rarely a fair trade.
— Jason Fried
Making a few vocal customers happy isn't worth it if it ruins the product for everyone else.
— Jason Fried
There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
— Duncan Campbell
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—
— Edith Wharton
It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.
— Edith Wharton