These compromise quotes were originally meant to be focused on “getting along” with another person, but (mostly) all I could find were ones that meant “coming to an agreement”.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. -unknown
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success. -John McDonald
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. -Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. -Chinua Achebe
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don’t see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die. -Gary Hirshberg
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. -Andrew Carnegie
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another–too often ending in the loss of both. -Tryon Edwards
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. -G. K. Chesterton
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. -James Russell Lowell
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. -George Herbert
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. -Ambrose Bierce
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. -Charles Sumner
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. -Arthur Bloch
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -Bliss Carman
Being a man is the continuing battle for one’s life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe. -H. Rap Brown
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. -Howard Hughes
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. -Eric Berne
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. -Charles Swindoll
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. -Reginald Wright Kaufman
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied. -Louis Untermever
Hmmmm…any thoughts about these compromise quotes?
Leave a Comment