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Compromise is an agreement reached by each side making concessions

• Compromise: An agreement or settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.  Oxford Dictionary
• Compromise: An agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Think win-win,  Persuasion

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Real life is full of compromise …

• Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. Gunther Grass
• Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Bruce Crampton
• Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. Bertrand Russell

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… especially in politics

• 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. K. Chesterton
• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell
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There are those that argue for compromise…

• Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. Phyllis McGinley
• 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
• A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. George Herbert
• Willingness to compromise with others’ ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Better bend than break. Scottish Proverb
• Compromise is the key to keeping you feeling like you are not being walked on. Heather Hogan

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… and those who argue against it

• Compromise is a stalling between two fools. Stephen Fry
• Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. Howard Hughes
• The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. Arthur Bloch

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Some say compromise is a form of weakness …

• Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. St. Josemaría Escrivá
• Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight—the lazy, the cunning, the cowardly—for they consider themselves defeated before they start. Josemaria Escriva
• 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
• Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. K. Chesterton
• It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. Elbert Hubbard
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… while others disagree

• Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. Paul Kagame

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Compromise is an important part of a democratic society

• As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. Eugene McCarthy William Sloane Coffin Jr.
• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. Samuel Johnson
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A willingness to compromise dissolves conflict

• Brainstorm solutions and come up with one that satisfies you both. Resolving conflicts is a creative act. There are many solutions to a single problem. The key is a willingness to seek compromises.  Roger Darlington
• Compromise is not regarded favourably by everyone. Some have criticized it as a half-hearted attempt to satisfy both parties’ interests. Others have suggested that it is a process of caving in (mutual yielding) to escape the hard work of constructive settlement. These criticisms might be valid in some cases. But they seem to be overwhelmingly outweighed by the numerous constructive resolutions of ongoing conflicts achieved every day through exchanging concessions and compromise. William E. Steckman
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Compromise is an important part of negotiation

• When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. John Maynard Keynes

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The danger with compromise is that both sides can lose

• 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 Edwards
• Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank. Christopher Myers
• A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted. Evan Esar
• Compromise: A deal in which two people get what neither of them wanted.
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In relationships, always try to think of win-win solutions

• Try to think win-win: see if you can find a compromise or a way for you both get your needs met. Elizabeth Scott
• There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. Mary Parker Follett
• Individuals behaving assertively will express themselves in ways that respect the other person. They assume the best about people, respect themselves, and think “win-win” and try to compromise. Elizabeth Scott, M.S.
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There is wisdom in the middle path

• The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world. Terry Tempest Williams
• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Balance,  Harmony

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Moderation is a form of compromise

• Moderation? It’s mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It’s the devil’s dilemma. It’s neither doing nor not doing. It’s the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence- sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It’s for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation…is lukewarm tea, the devil’s own brew. Dan Millman
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Don’t compromise yourself

• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Janis Joplin
• You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise…guided by your own virtue and highest ambition. Philippa Gregory
• You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right—with what is right for you. Vernon Howard
• Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that’s beautiful to create something that is fake. Steve Maraboli

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Don’t compromise your dreams

• Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for. Ogwo David Emenike
• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. Robert Fritz
• The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. Richard Bach
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Don’t compromise your principles

• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. Chinua Achebe
• Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change. Jane Goodall
• Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.  George Packer
• If you can get along with everyone and everyone loves you, then you don’t stand for much. A person who stands his ground for his principles and won’t compromise his integrity is not loved by everyone. Larry Winget
• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Mohandas K. Gandhi
• 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 K. Gandhi
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Don’t compromise your spiritual life

• In spiritual life, there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us. Jack Kornfield
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Don’t let compromise abandon human rights

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. Tryon Edwards

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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
• A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. Ludwig Erhard
• The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Evan Esar
• Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient. James Russel Lowell
• Compromise: A deal in which two people get what neither of them wanted.
• Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
• Strapless Gown: A compromise between the law of decency and the law of gravity.
• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. Peter Finley Dunne

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