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May you find great value in these Compromise quotes and sayings.
To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir
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 (Mahatma) Gandhi
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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