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Sometimes compromise is painful.

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

One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?

Compromise has a negative connotation.

Politics is compromise.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.