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

"It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man."

"Compromise. 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."

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
“We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves”
“Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.”