Negotiation skills Quotes

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

- A. K. Antony

Compromise has a negative connotation.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

- Abigail Disney

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

- Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

- Abraham Lincoln

During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.

- Adam Neumann

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

- Aesop

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

- Aidan Chambers

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

- Alain Prost

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

- Alan Greenspan

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

- Alan Sugar

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

- Aldrich Ames

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

- Alex Pareene

Never compromise yourself.

- Alexa Vega

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

- Alexander Chee

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

- Alfred Nobel

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

- Andrei Tarkovsky

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Andrew Cuomo

The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

- Andrew Nikiforuk

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

- Andy Warhol

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

- Angela Merkel

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

- Ann Marie Buerkle

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

- Anna Lindh

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

- Anthony Fauci

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

- Ari Fleischer

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

- Ariel Levy

We have learned a long time ago that one cannot compromise with terrorists.

- Ariel Sharon

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

- Aristotle

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

- Arthur Bloch

I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

- Asma Jahangir

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

- Ayrton Senna

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

- Azar Nafisi

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

- Barack Obama

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

- Barbara Bush

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

- Benjamin F. Wade

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

- Bill Dixon

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.

- Blake Farenthold

You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.

- Bob Ainsworth

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

- Boy George

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

- Brad Holland

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

- Brad Schneider

I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.

- Brooke Hayward

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

- Caitlin Stasey

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

- Candice Olson

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

- Carlene Carter

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

- Carolina Herrera

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

- CeeLo Green

Don't cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.

- Chanda Kochhar

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

- Charles Horton Cooley

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

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

- Charlie Crist

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

- Chris Christie

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

- Christian Bale

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

- Ciara Renee

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

- Claire McCaskill

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

- Colin Powell

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

- Conrad Burns

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

- Corrine Brown

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

- Damian Lewis

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

- Dan Brown

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

- Danica Patrick

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.

- Daniel Espinosa

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

- Daniel Pipes

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

- Dario Argento

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

- David Green

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

- David James Duncan

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

- David Lloyd

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

- David Novak

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

- David Sylvian

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

- David Wooster

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

- Dean Ornish

Sustainability is important because we all are responsible to nourish our planet. And real food should be delicious, safe, affordable, and accessible to all. All without compromise.

- Denise Morrison

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

- Dennis Moore

We live the life, but in an honest way. Without compromise, without corruption. This I understand now is the big key to my power - the power of Dolce & Gabbana. It's not just the clothes. It's love for the people.

- Domenico Dolce

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

- Ed Wood

Compromise in colors is grey.

- Edi Rama

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

- Ehud Barak

I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

- Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly.

- Ellen Ullman

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

- Emanuel Cleaver

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

- Enid Bagnold

I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

- Ennio Morricone

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

- Eric Berne

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

- Erwin Rommel

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

- Erykah Badu

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

- Eva LaRue

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

- Everett Dirksen

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

- Ezra Taft Benson

It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.

- Future

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

- Gao Xingjian

I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

- Gary Sinise

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

- Gene Green

I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.

- George A. Romero

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

- George Jean Nathan

There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

- George Karl

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

- George Woodcock

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

- Golda Meir

Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.

- Golshifteh Farahani

We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.

- Gordon Brown

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

- Gregory Harrison

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

- Gretchen Carlson

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

- Grimes

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

- Grover Norquist

Never, ever, compromise on science.

- Harry Kroto

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

- Harry Reid

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

- Heather Wilson

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

- Hedy Lamarr

The devil is compromise.

- Henrik Ibsen

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

- Herman Cain

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

- Heston Blumenthal

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

- Hillary Scott

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

- Horst Koehler

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.

- Hunter Hayes

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

- Idina Menzel

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

- Irvin Kershner

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

- Irving Paul Lazar

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

- Jalal Talabani

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

- Jalal Talabani

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

- James Altucher

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

- Janis Joplin

Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.

- Jared Polis

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

- Jason Wu

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

- Jay Carney

Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.

- Jay Samit

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

- Jeannette Rankin

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

- Jeff Miller

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

- Jenny Mollen

I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

- Jeremy Irvine

I know when I left the game, I could have played more. There is no question. I think I could have played at a very high level, too. But I could not play the way everyone wanted me to play. And I was not willing to compromise what I felt was a standard that I had established in this league and, particularly, for our fans at home.

- Jerry West

I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

- Jessica Williams

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

- John C. Calhoun

If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

- John Delaney

Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise.

- John Delaney

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

- John Fleming

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

- John Gerzema

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

- John Ruskin

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

- John Shadegg

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

- John Walker Lindh

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

- Jonathan Shapiro

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

- Jose Carreras

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

- Jose Serrano

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

- Josh Fox

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

- Joss Whedon

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

- Joyce Meyer

I think it's natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can, particularly if they believe that government tends to compromise.

- Julius Genachowski

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

- Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.

- Karishma Tanna

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

- Kelli White

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

- Ken Buck

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

- Kenneth Chenault

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

- Kenneth Chenault

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

- Kevin McCloud

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

- Kevin Spacey

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

- Kim Il-sung

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

- Kitty Kelley

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.

- Klaus Schwab

I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

- Kristin Lehman

At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.

- Kurt Schrader

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

- L. Lionel Kendrick

At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

- L. Lionel Kendrick

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

- Larry Wall

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

- Lawrence Durrell

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.

- Leigh Brackett

Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

- Li Shufu

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

- Ludwig Erhard

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

- Lynn Jurich

Sometimes compromise is painful.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

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

- Madeleine M. Kunin

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

- Mamata Banerjee

I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.

- Marcello Giordani

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

- Marco Rubio

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.

- Marco Rubio

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

- Margaret Thatcher

I will always need to compromise and make choices - you just have to work hard at making the right choice day by day.

- Marianne Lake

I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.

- Mark Romanek

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

- Mark Skousen

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

- Markwayne Mullin

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

- Mary Frances Berry

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

- Matt Taibbi

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

- Megan Fox

I play a certain style. I'm not willing to compromise that part of me.

- Megan Rapinoe

If I'm doing a show on Sunday at 7 P.M., that wouldn't be the same show that I'd do at 11 P.M. on a Saturday - it's a different room at a different time of day with different sensibilities. That doesn't mean you have to compromise your art, but it is communication: you have to know how to talk to people.

- Michael Che

Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.

- Michael Spiller

You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

- Michele Bachmann

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

- Mickey Rourke

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

- Mickey Rourke

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

- Miguel Sapochnik

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

- Mike Davidson

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

- Mike Leigh

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain.

- Mike Pence

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

- Mike Rutherford

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

- Mike Singletary

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

- Miroslav Lajcak

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

- Moliere

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

- Moliere

Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

- Naomi Klein

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

- Narendra Modi

I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

- Natalie Babbitt

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

- Natan Sharansky

The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.

- Naval Ravikant

When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

- Nazanin Boniadi

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

- Neri Oxman

A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn't end up exactly the way you think it's going to, and if it's the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you're doing professionally.

- Nicholas Stoller

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

- Nick Rahall

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

- Novala Takemoto

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

- Oliver Tambo

I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?

- OMI

Politics is compromise.

- Paddy Ashdown

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

- Paul Auster

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

- Paul Kagame

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.

- Paul Samuelson

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

- Peter Hook

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

- Peter Singer

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

- Peter Singer

Luxury is research in quality. It's quality with no compromise. What does that mean? That you don't think about how much something will cost to be able to achieve the very, very best.

- Pier Luigi Loro Piana

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

- Pierre Nanterme

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

- Princess Diana

Having a family is a compromise on some level, but it's so incredibly worth it. It actually informs the work that I do as a DP.

- Rachel Morrison

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

- Rachel Nichols

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

- Rajeev Suri

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.

- Raquel Welch

As a team, we're all inside a bubble. Each of us only has so much room to operate. You have to carve out your space and recognize that because of someone else's needs, you might have to compromise a bit.

- Ray Allen

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

- Rebekah Brooks

I never compromise with my work.

- Remo D'Souza

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

- Rex Tillerson

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

- Richard Dawkins

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.

- Richard Engel

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

- Richard Mentor Johnson

The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.

- Richard Mourdock

No one pursuing reasonable goals and who is prepared to compromise can argue that terrorism is his or his group's only option.

- Richard N. Haass

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

- Richard Widmark

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

- Rick Santelli

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.

- Robert Fritz

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

- Robert Toombs

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.

- Rodrigo Duterte

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

- Roger Mudd

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

- Ron Fournier

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

- Rush Limbaugh

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

- Sam Altman

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

- Sammy Hagar

I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.

- Sandra E. Peterson

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

- Santiago Durango

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

- Sarah Brightman

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Tennesseans know they can count on me to never compromise on independent, conservative principles and that I will always fight for smaller government, less spending, and more jobs.

- Scott DesJarlais

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

- Seth Moulton

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

- Shahid Khan

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

- Shiv Khera

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

- Spike Jonze

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

- Star Jones

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

- Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

- Stephanie Herseth

Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise or that it's too big of a dream.

- Stephanie Savage

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

- Steve Chabot

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.

- Steve Irwin

Money is a way of expressing no compromise.

- Steve Wynn

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

- T Bone Burnett

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

- Talib Kweli

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

- Ted Cruz

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

- Ted Stevens

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

- Terence

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.

- Thaksin Shinawatra

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

- The Mighty Hannibal

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

- Themistocles

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

- Thomas Carlyle

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

- Thomas S. Monson

I'm not afraid of any kind of job, I'm not afraid to play any kind of role, as long as it doesn't compromise my morals.

- Tiffany Haddish

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

- Tim Allen

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

- Tim Robbins

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

- Timothy Garton Ash

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

- Toby Keith

Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

- Todd Tiahrt

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

- Tom Cochrane

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

- Tony Blair

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

- Vidal Sassoon

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

- Viggo Mortensen

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

- Vivek Wadhwa

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

- Walter Annenberg

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

- William Bernbach

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

- William Butler Yeats

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

- Zig Ziglar