Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."
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Compromise
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Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values."
Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution."
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"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
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"Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself."
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"Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof."
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"Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity."
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"Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values."
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"The opposite of compromise is character."
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"Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises."
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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
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"You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated."
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"The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises."
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"Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience."
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"No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong."
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"To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me."
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"Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!"
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"I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'"
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"Compromise is the door through which deception enters."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"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."
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"Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise."
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