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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
Steve Maraboli
You make the world come alive. You make the world colorful. You are the inspiration behind all that happens. You are the pillar of strength to many around you, the centrifugal force of your own little world, called family. I love being a women and celebrate being one everyday, hope you all do too!! And to all those who battle their various circumstances, the hurdles, the sacrifices and the compromises they make, wish them all inner strength! Happy Women's Day!
Deeba Salim Irfan
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
Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
Ogwo David Emenike
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
John Haggai
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Reginald W. Kaufman
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles Swindoll
Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
Senator Jesse Helms
Better bend than break.
Scottish Proverb
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
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 D. MacDonald
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Wa
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Howard Hughes
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
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