Quotes Tagged "compromise"

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

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

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.

Life occurs somewhere between our aspirations and our just desserts.

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.

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.