Compromise Leadership Quotes & Sayings

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy — Robert A. Caro

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know. — B.F. Skinner

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet. — Serena Williams

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character. — Bill Hybels

A real man never lets his lady slip by the wayside. — C.M. Stunich

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script. — Rob Zombie

I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug. — Aaron Lazar

I like to make great albums. — Shelby Lynne

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means. — Thomas E. Mann

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward — Robert A. Caro

FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty. — A.E. Samaan

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution. — Joseph J. Ellis

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity. — Graeme Samuel

It's not healthy to be jealous. — Victoria Beckham

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue. — David Pietrusza

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. — Claud Cockburn

Some Christian leaders ... are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions. — Billy Graham

That image of a chessboard - an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy - has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones. — Sam Tanenhaus

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me. — Steve Swallow

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled. — Jon Meacham

Your true friends are protectors of your heart — Steven Aitchison

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. — Clarence Darrow

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens. — Kamla Persad-Bissessar

The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions - and creating jobs along the way - have the freedom and security to keep innovating. — Todd Park

I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
[He was awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium.] — Harold Urey

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. — Horst Koehler

WOMEN..get the word 'Compromise' out of your lives..You are a 'Value Driver'..Be proud of that ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men. — Theodore Roosevelt

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity. — Stan Slap

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. — Woodrow Wilson

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. — H.W. Brands

Well, well. Lucinda Hutton. One flexible little gal." He is reclining in his chair again. Both feet are flat on the floor and they point at me like revolvers in a Wild West shootout.

"HR," I clip at him. I'm losing this game and he knows it. Calling HR is virtually like tapping out. He picks up the pencil and presses the sharpened tip against the pad of his thumb. If a human could grin without moving their face, he just did it. — Sally Thorne

But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power ... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No New Taxes' or 'We are a Christian Nation.' In fact, with their rigid doctrines, slash-and-burn style, and exaggerated sense of having been aggrieved, this new conservative leadership was eerily reminiscent of some of the New Left's leaders during the sixties. As with their left-wing counterparts, this new vanguard of the right viewed politics as a contest not just between competing policy visions, but between good and evil. Activists in both parties began developing litmus tests, checklists of orthodoxy, leaving a Democrat who questioned abortion increasingly lonely, any Republican who championed gun control effectively marooned. In this Manichean struggle, compromise came to look like weakness, to be punished or purged. You were with us or you were against us. You had to choose sides. — Barack Obama

In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders. We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population. — Benjamin Netanyahu

A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers. — Israelmore Ayivor