You can do only one thing at a...

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

~Maxwell Maltz~

The swift wind of compromise i...

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

~Charles Swindoll~

Most people hew the battlement...

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

~Source Unknown~

Life cannot subsist in society...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

~Samuel Johnson~

It is the weak man who urges c...

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.

~Elbert Hubbard~

Compromise used to mean that h...

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.

~Gilbert Keith Chesterton~

Compromise makes a good umbrel...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

~James Russell Lowell~

Compromise is never anything b...

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

~Reginald W. Kaufman~

All government - indeed, every...

All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

~Edmund Burke~