Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

compromise is the work of mature people.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.