Meeting Halfway Quotes

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

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".

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

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

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 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.

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

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

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

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

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.

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

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

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

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.

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.

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

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

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

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