40+ Insightful Compromise Quotes to Enlight Your Life Decisions

Quotes On Compromise

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Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful compromise quotes.

• “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
  
• “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.” — John Keegan
  
• “But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.” — Colin Powell
  
• "You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can’t compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, ‘They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.’ It’s complete intolerance.” — Gary Ackerman
  
• “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
  
• “You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.” — Jamie Dimon
  
• “Don’t cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.” – Chanda Kochhar
  
• “Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?” — Neri Oxman
  
  

Quotes About Compromise

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• “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
  
• “Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.” — CeeLo Green
  
• “Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.” — Paul Kagame
  
• “Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one’s principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.” — Madeleine M. Kunin
  
• “There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.” — A. K. Antony
  
• “All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.” — Edmund Burke
  
• “A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.” — Ludwig Erhard
  

Compromise Quotes For Relationships

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Looking for compromise quotes for relationships? These are for you!

• “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey
  
• “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” – Stephanie Perkins
  
• “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilber
  
• “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”– Criss Jami
  
• “True love stories never have endings.”– Richard Bach
  
• “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
  
• “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
  
• “Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.” – Anonymous
  
• “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”– Eva Gabor
  
• “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.” – Domenico Cieri Estrada
  
• “Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. Love is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
  
  

Compromise Quotes Love

Hope these compromise quotes about love give you some enlightenment.

• “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
• “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” – Henry Drummond
  
• “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
  
• “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” – Joyce Meyer
  
• “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
  
• .“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
  
• “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
  

Quotes On Compromise In Life

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• “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
  
• “To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.” — Golda Meir
  
• “Any negotiation involves compromise, and no one will get everything they want.” — Nicky Morgan
  Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.” – Steve Maraboli
  “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.” - Aaron Burr
  
• “Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.” – Annie Dillard“You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”- Guy Finley
  
• “Everyone hears only what he understands.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
• “We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.” – John Corey Whaley
  
• “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” - Marie Curie
  
• “Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.” - Richard Bach
  “Remember that love is a compromise, but never let this compromise turn into a one-sided sacrifice.” – Ash Gabrieli
  
• “You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?” - Confucius
  
• “Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.” - H.H Williams
  
• “If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.” - Lyndon Johnson
  
• “A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  
• “The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.” - Kahlil Gibran
  
• “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Søren Kierkegaard
  
• “Compromise is what binds people together. Compromise is sharing and conciliatory, it is loving and kind and unselfish.” – Ali Harris
  
• “You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That’s how compromise is supposed to work.” – Stephenie Meyer
  
  

Never Compromise Quotes

• "Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both." - Tryon Edward
  
• "Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. Sometimes I try to downplay it a bit because people are like, ‘God you guys.’ I just feel so fortunate that I have found someone who will put up with me and stay with me." - Nicole Kidman
  
• "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
  
• "A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit." -  George Herbert
  
• "A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart." -  George Jean Nathan
  
• "Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised." -  Andrew Carnogie
  
• "Compromise the art of dividing a cake so that everyone thinks they got the biggest piece" - Unknown
  
• "Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose." -  Myles Munroe
  
• "The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising." - Arthur Bloch
  
• "Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof." - James Russell Lowell