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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

Veterans Day, Courage, Loyalty, Done

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, Veterans Day, Death, Honor, Fate

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

Family, Work, Community, Identity, Moral

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

Patience, Acceptance, Understanding

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar

You, Want, Now, Be Careful, Most

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. Andy Warhol

Action, Wish, Born, Strange, Negotiation

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

Fundamentals, Surrender, Give And Take

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

Conflict, Non-Violence, Tools, Turn

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

Best, Good, Evil, Good And Evil, Animal

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. Michael Badnarik

I Am, Control, Gun, Gun Control, Think

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

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, You, Be Prepared, Nothing

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

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, Hurt, Free, Think

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, Opportunity, Good, Man, Lawyer

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, Like, Sense

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. Barack Obama

Wisdom, Democracy, Long, You, New, Party

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

Ethics, More, Expediency, Often, Between

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it. A. K. Antony

Corruption, Fight, You

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, Going

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, You, Fierce

Compromise in colors is grey. Edi Rama

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that. Oliver Tambo

End, Target, Apartheid, System, Our

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides. Zachary Taylor

Hope, Slavery, Will, Both Sides, Two

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works. Joe Kennedy III

Democracy, Dirty, Fact, Word, How, Works

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. Thomas S. Monson

Smile, Courage, God, Approval, Brings

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