Compromising Values Quotes

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Sometimes compromise is painful.

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.

The devil is compromise.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment... will think they have an option to buy.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

In our talk a few days ago, you indicated that my candidacy for Congress on the Republican ticket would depend on my compliance with certain minimum requirements. Desirable and comfortable as a party nomination may be, I cannot sacrifice principle for the sake of party nomination or anything else. During my time in the House I ... voted according to my best judgement, and in a manner which I believed represented the wishes of the people of my district. The platform of the Republican party ... makes no appeal to the hope of the people whom I represent.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don't know. That just wasn't in my DNA.

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.