Compromise Consequences Quotes

Sometimes compromise is painful.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises?

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

You can't just be a revolutionary for 40 or 50 years. That means compromising.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

I don't know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.

If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.

I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.'