Compromise Quotes and Sayings

“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.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“The devil is compromise.” – Henrik Ibsen

“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.” – George Herbert

“The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. 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 Carnegie

“I’m not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don’t like being defeated.” – Donald Trump

“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.” – Paul Murray

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.” – Phyllis Mcginley

“Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.” – Dwight Eisenhower

“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.” – James Russel Lowell

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

“Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.” – Arthur Lynch

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson