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"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."
"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."
"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."
Explore more quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."
"I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
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