Compromise Quotes - Page 26

• The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Spirit, Humans, Human Spirit

  Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.167, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Expectations

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Climbing, Purpose

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• The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Adventure, Emotional

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• 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

  Fighting, Practice, Facts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god: Freedom, the Holiest of Holies. Yes it bloody well is. It is absolutely sacred and inviolable, beyond any negotiation or compromise, now and forever. Amen.

  Pat Condell

  Forever, Freedom Of Speech, Identity

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Free Speech Is Sacred", www.youtube.com. March 17, 2009.

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

  Gao Xingjian

  Want, Concessions, Ifs

  "Living without 'isms'" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.

  Chris Christie

  Gay, Principles, Doe

  "Christie: No deal on gay marriage" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  Madisen Beaty

  School, Thinking, Decision

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• History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

  Francis James Grimke

  Order, People, Example

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• Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Christian, Thinking, Church

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• They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Sin

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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

  James Surowiecki

  Diversity, Decision, Independence

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.19, Anchor

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• Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

  Dean Karnazes

  Morning, Mirrors, People

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale

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• Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them. Don't mind if others don't share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.

  Epictetus

  Life, Spiritual, Self

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• ...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Wind, Goal

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• We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

  Joseph Mailman

  Business, Add, Generations

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• 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

  Family, Baby, Wife

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• No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

  Greg Egan

  Growing Up, Lying, Maturity

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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• I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Tyrants, Wish, World

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.

  Glennon Melton

  Sorry, Successful, Romantic Love

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• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Heart, Past

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Quality

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