Francis de Sales Quotes

Never cut what can be untied.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

There's not a problem we have that we can't talk out. We can't shout it out.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

Better bow than break.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

My name is new in the field, and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many. Our policy then is to give no offense to others—leave them in a mood to come to us if they shall be compelled to give up their first love.

Strong men know when to compromise.

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

There are times when public men must be able to accept ridicule and defeat, and wait for time either to prove them right, or to give them another chance. There are other times when it is probably wiser to compromise on half victories, so long as the trend is in the right direction. To do this effectively, however, and wisely is a very difficult thing.

It ought not to be beyond the intelligence of even the most hidebound local politician to see the benefits of imaginative compromise.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.