Top 1200 Never Compromise Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

I totally understand everyone else's view. They are obviously different to mine and I respect that but what I don't want to do is compromise what I believe in.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

The result may not be perfect. But our forefathers wanted us to compromise to get things done for America.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

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.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

I don't care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

If you believe in free markets, I don't want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that's the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

Skincare is integral to women's daily routine. They shouldn't have to compromise on what they use or the difference they see just because of the price.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

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 a compromise.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

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

I make it a point to pick films that tell you a story in an engaging way. I can't compromise on the content. The script has to be substantial and impactful.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

Every girl has a dream - she wants a perfect husband. But that is not possible. There will be ego clashes and one has to compromise.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

The bottom line - customers want delicious food served quickly in an interactive format, and they are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.