(580 quotes found)
“Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.”
Toby Keith
“When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner and you can bet your last nickel on it.”
Zig Ziglar
“Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break”
Jane Wells
“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
Janis Joplin
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum”
Aiden Wilson Tozer
“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
“Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.”
Erma Bombeck
“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