Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling. — Lauryn Hill
Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise. — DeVon Franklin
Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream. — Imran Khan
Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises. — Gunter Grass
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. — Josemaria Escriva
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. — Russian Proverbs
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break — Jane Wells
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. — Albert Camus
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. — Mahatma Gandhi
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. — Mike Rutherford
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. — Janis Joplin
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. — Raymond Holliwell
Everything is, to some extent, a compromise. Not everything can be perfect. — Jim Simons
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. — Angela Merkel
Short Life Compromise Quotes
Be the compromise you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. — Peter Singer
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. — Gordon Ramsay
You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice. — Shakira
Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. — Toby Keith
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir
Everything worth having requires sacrifice. — Lex Fridman
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement. — Winfield Scott
Life Compromise Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Love Compromise Quotes
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. — Rick Warren
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible. — Salvador Minuchin
We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise. — Elliot Page
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key. — Glennon Melton
Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise. — Ellen Page
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. — Raquel Welch
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel. — John Dalton
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. — John Piper
My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko
I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter. — Tariq Ramadan
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV? — Leonard Ravenhill
The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise. — G. Campbell Morgan
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. — Angela Merkel
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. — Paul Kagame
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. — William Lloyd Garrison
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. — Mary Parker Follett
You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything. — Ayrton Senna
Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne. — David Wilkerson
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
The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. — Randy Komisar
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. — Zelda Fitzgerald
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha! — Axl Rose
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story — Oliver North
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. — Tom Cochrane
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose. — John Cowper Powys
What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality. — Barbara Gittings
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. — Lawrence Durrell
Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise. — Brian Tracy
Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life — Richard Rogers
The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish. — Greg LeMond
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise. — Swami Vivekananda
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? — Rush Limbaugh
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. — Albert Camus
If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death." — Howard W. Hunter
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all. — Benazir Bhutto
If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it. — Osho
I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans — Lykke Li
In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue. — Wyndham Lewis
The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter". — Richard Marcinko
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function — Donald A. Norman
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy — Phyllis Mcginley
Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true. — L. Neil Smith
I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. — Cher
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. — Gunther Grass
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me. — Rick Bass
When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you. — John Spence
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. — Alan Moore
Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters". — James Marcus
I don't really have an anti-aging strategy. I accept it. It is what it is. I think about how I feel. So to me, yoga and running and doing work that is meaningful to me is the best way to look and feel good. I think happiness and living a life that you feel good in and you don't feel compromised - that all makes a big difference to the way that you look. I don't give a lot of thought to aging. — Christy Turlington
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination. — Lawrence Durrell
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. — Unknown
Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises. — Charles Knight
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. — Bertrand Russell
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