I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope Words for All Occasions
Categories: failure compromise

The Law of Win/Win says, "Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way."
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: win/win cooperation trust compromise

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
Aesop The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: flexibility compromise strength

There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.
Charles Conrad The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: compromise adversity humility

Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain... The pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.
Hazrat Inayat Khan Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships marriage compromise

... even if you can't make people like you, at least you can try to see things from their point of view.
Joan Webb-Ewen "Princess of Persuasion," Fast Company, Oct. 1999
Categories: relationships compromise communication tolerance

If you come at me with your fists doubled, I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, " Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are," we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points at which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.
Woodrow Wilson Words for All Occasions
Categories: compromise dialogue cooperation attitude

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life compromise relationship society

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: compromise relationships friendships argue arguing fighting

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
George Clemenceau The Guinness Chronicle of the 20th-century in Quotations edited by David Milsted
Categories: hate anger tolerance differences reconciliation compromise

An agreement is more valuable than money.
Russian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: agreement compromise litigation lawsuit business cooperation

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character failure defeat compromise grace humility serve

Your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience, and understanding [and thus] to develop your capacity for compassion.
Dalai Lama "A Kinship Appeal" by Elaine M. Prevallet, S.L., Weavings , November/December 1998.
Categories: growth confrontation compromise patience tolerance compassion difficult people