Dennis Prager 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.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

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

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

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".

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

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.

compromise is the work of mature people.

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" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.

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

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

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

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.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

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

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.