Top 383 Compromise Quotes

Luxury is research in quality. It’s quality with no compromise. What does that mean? That you don’t think about how much something will cost to be able to achieve the very, very best.
Pier Luigi Loro Piana
For me, my level of comfort is the prime factor. I’d never compromise on my comfort, no matter how much a script needs it.
Amrita Rao
No, you’re not allowed to be bossy when you’re married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
Star Jones
There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.
John Fleming
Generally, in Gujarati families, people get married early, and all my friends are married with two kids. My father had told me, ‘If you do not find a right partner, do not get married’; that’s the advice he has always given me. So, I will never compromise in my marriage.
Karishma Tanna
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
Christian Bale
I think it’s wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I’m not compromising. I don’t care who, what, when or where, I’m not compromising.
Ken Buck
When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
Claire McCaskill
Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.
Jay Samit
The devil is compromise.
Henrik Ibsen
We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
Walter Annenberg
Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.
Henry Petroski
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin Powell
If you compromise what you’re trying to do just a little bit, you’ll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you’re suddenly really far away from where you’re trying to go.
Spike Jonze
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Jeannette Rankin
Leaders need to compromise, negotiate with members of both parties and ideologies, and reform health care the right way – by developing a strong plan that encompasses the needs of all Americans.
Charles Boustany
I love what I do too much to compromise on it. I would rather wait for the work that excites me than just go and do a job so I can stay busy.
Shefali Shah
Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
Narendra Modi
I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.
Wentworth Miller
To be honest, ‘Ready Steady Cook’ was a great opportunity, but I did compromise myself. I was stood there quizzing chefs on what they were doing when I knew exactly what they were doing and why.
Ainsley Harriott
One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?
Ken Ham
As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today’s Republicans – and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan – just aren’t up to the task. They’re beholden to ‘my way or the highway’ bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.
Charlie Crist
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Charles Horton Cooley
A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.
Clayton M. Christensen
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot li

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.
Alan Greenspan
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
Donald Norman
I am always open to a conversation. I am always open to a bipartisan compromise.
Brian Schatz
I hate it when people look at marriage, especially when it comes to girls as ‘settling down.’ First of all ‘settle’ sounds like a compromise and ‘down’ makes it worse. It reminds me of teachers who ask their students to ‘settle down’ once they enter the classroom.
Richa Chadha
I make it a point to pick films that tell you a story in an engaging way. I can’t compromise on the content. The script has to be substantial and impactful.
Huma Qureshi
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert
Part of making a relationship work is compromise and I think the idea of compromise in relationships is something that we lack in my generation.
Rose Matafeo
It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.
Joel Osteen
There’s going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.
Mike Pence
A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.
John C. Calhoun
The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don’t.
Steve Chabot