Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Compromise

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

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 (1916–86) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

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 American Theologian

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) Russian Head of State, Political leader

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Better bend than break.
Scottish Proverb

The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

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 (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman

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 (1899–1948) American Writer, Artist

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Chuck Swindoll (b.1934) American Evangelical Christian Pastor, Author

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Reginald Wright Kauffman (1877–1959) American Novelist, Screenwriter

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
Gunter Grass (1927–2015) German Novelist, Poet

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 (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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