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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break”
Jane Wells
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
Janis Joplin
“Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.”
Toby Keith
“We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum”
Aiden Wilson Tozer
“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
“COMPROMISE, n. 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
“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
“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
“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
