Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. – Arthur Bloch
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. – Bliss Carman
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. – G. K. Chesterton
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. – Sir Winston Churchill
The English never draw a line without blurring it. – Sir Winston Churchill
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. – Benjamin Disraeli
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. – Gunther Grass
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. – John Haggai
Compromise, hell! … If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? – Senator Jesse Helms
It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. – Howard Hughes
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. – Reginald W. Kaufman
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success. – John D. MacDonald
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment. – Maxwell Maltz
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. – Charles Sumner
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. – Charles Swindoll
