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Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. John Keegan

Courage, Loyalty, Done, Soldiers, Duty

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher

Wisdom, Time, Be Prepared, You, Nothing

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln

Business, Good, Opportunity, Man, Lawyer

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. Tom Cochrane

Life, Failure, Integrity, Dignity, Where

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies. Vivek Wadhwa

Success, Business, Ethics, Easy, Need

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. - Janis Joplin

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin

Yourself, You, Got

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? Rush Limbaugh

Life, Work, Death, Life And Death, Moral

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green Ingersoll

Fear, Death, Honor, Fate, Down, Will

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed. CeeLo Green

Patience, Acceptance, Tools, Tolerance

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance. Gary Ackerman

Good, Best, Animal, Road, Good And Evil

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. Mahatma Gandhi

Surrender, Fundamentals, Give, Take, Any

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise. Rachel Nichols

Kindness, Patience, Understanding, Think

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. Abraham Lincoln

Nature, History, Heart, Man, Past, Speak

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise. Miroslav Lajcak

Conflict, Tools, Non-Violence, Turn

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. Erykah Badu

Respect, Art, People, Think, Hurt, Free

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word. Barbara Bush

Hate, People, Think, Dirty, Fact, Word

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests. Vladimir Putin

Partner, Ability, Politeness, Rather

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' Barack Obama

Music, Good, They Say, Say, Sense, Like

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours. Klaus Schwab

Work, Family, Community, Destiny, Choice

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. Andrew Carnegie

Strong, Men, Know, Strong Men, Serve

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Alone, Voting, People, Collaboration

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. Kim Il-sung

Time, Fight, Practice, Afraid, Same

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Power, I Am, Pressure, Mentors, Big

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that. Hunter Hayes

Relationship, Time, Be Strong, Strong

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you. Idina Menzel

Fear, Losing, World, Doing, Fierce, You

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. Erwin Rommel

Future, Battle, Air, Will, Solutions

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