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"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. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle."
- Handy, Charles

"Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."
- Knight, Charles

"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
- Bloch, Arthur

"Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness."
- Unknown, Source

"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned."
- Sumner, Charles

"I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. "
- Ford, Gerald R.

"Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity."
- Russell, Bertrand

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
- Joplin, Janis

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."
- Grass, Gunther

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
- Herbert, George

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

"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."
- Unknown, Source

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

"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
- Moliere

"A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect."
- Cioran, E. M.

"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."
- Swindoll, Charles

"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."
- Bagnold, Enid

"Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way."
- Unknown, Source

"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
- Carman, Bliss

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
- Burke, Edmund

"Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward."
- Kaufman, Reginald W.

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
- Ruskin, John

"Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."
- Phillips, Wendell

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism."
- Ingersoll, Robert Green

"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece."
- Erhard, Ludwig

"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both."
- Edwards, Tryon

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship."
- Lowell, James Russell

"Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator."
- Lewis, Wyndham

"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."
- Butler, Samuel

"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf."
- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

"I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
- Unknown, Source

"Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"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."
- Bierce, Ambrose

"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
- Dewey, John

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination."
- Durrell, Lawrence

"Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises."
- Jameson, Storm

"There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He [Tom Brown] never wants anything but whats right and fair; only when you come to settle whats right and fair, its everything he wants, and nothing that you want. And thats his idea of a compromise. "
- Hughes, Thomas

"I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation. "
- Ford, Gerald R.

"There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. "
- Hoffer, Eric

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama

"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
- Hoffer, Eric

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
- Berger, John

"Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms."
- Unknown, Source

"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
- Cibber, Colley

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."
- Mccaffrey, Anne

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
- Beecher, Willard

"The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose."
- Walters, Lily

"The dew of compassion is a tear."
- Byron, Lord

"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."
- Cowper, William

"Compassion is no substitute for justice."
- Limbaugh, Rush

"Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!"
- Paglia, Camille

"He who feels no compassion will become insane."
- Unknown, Source

"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."
- Cook, Joseph

"Conscience is a man's compass."
- Gogh, Vincent Van

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
- Schaeffer, Francis

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
- Confucius

"Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion."
- Bennett, Arnold

"Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass."
- Santaguida, Paul

"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."
- Heine, Heinrich

"They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night."
- Joubert, Joseph

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
- Johnson, Samuel

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."
- Dirksen , Everett M.

"The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others."
- Schweitzer, Albert

"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
- Scott, Sir Walter

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
- Eckhart, Meister

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Schweitzer, Albert

"A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart."
- Townsend, Robert

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
- Channing, William Ellery

"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
- Trungpa, Chogyam

"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."
- Thant , U.

"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
- Maurois, Andre

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
- Beauvoir, Simone De

"But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock."
- Huxley, Aldous

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
- Cousins, Norman

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."
- Bhagavad Gita

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
- Addison, Joseph

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
- Humphrey, Hubert H.

"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."
- Gibran, Kahlil

"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."
- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news."
- Disraeli, Benjamin

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another"
- Merton, Thomas

"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
- Cohen, Leonard

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
- Kundera, Milan

"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."
- Burke, Edmund

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."
- Stainback, Arthur H.

"The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty."
- Russell, Bertrand

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."
- Pasternak, Boris

"The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture."
- Hazlitt, William

"Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom."
- Lyman, Edward R.

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
- Dietrich, Marlene

"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
- Angelou, Maya

"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."
- Conrad, Joseph

"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past."
- Ricks, Christopher

"Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."
- Ginsberg, Allen

"Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. "
- Beecher, Henry Ward

"When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels."
- Goodman, Paul

"A community is like the ones who govern it."
- Cicero, Marcus T.

"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."
- Nader, Ralph

"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."
- Prochnow, Herbert

"The community of living is the carriage of the Lord."
- Proverb, Hasidic

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
- Howe, Edgar Watson

"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
- Edison, Thomas A.

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
- Churchill, Winston

"Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units."
- Solanis, Valerie

"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
- Young, Brigham

"Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence."
- Augustine, St.

"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace."
- Wilson, Woodrow T.

"In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem"
- Dever, J. A.

"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. "
- Lincoln, Abraham

"Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."
- Bierce, Ambrose

" Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
- Wilde, Oscar

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
- Houston, Sam

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
- Carnegie, Andrew

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
- Wells, H.G.

"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
- Veblen, Thorstein

"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
- Adler, Renata

"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."
- Veblen, Thorstein

"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
- Kennedy, John F.

"Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent."
- Saussure, Ferdinand De

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
- Wilde, Oscar

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Adams, Henry Brooks

"People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community."
- Leo XIII

"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
- Kennedy, John F.

"So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. "
- Blackstone, Sir William

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
- Leopold, Aldo

"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
- Irving, Washington

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
- Hutchins, Robert M.

"No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. "
- Roosevelt, Theodore

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
- Burke, Edmund

"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."
- Colton, Charles Caleb

"Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another."
- O'Casey, Sean

"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods"
- Veblen, Thorstein

"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
- King Jr. Martin Luther

"When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. "
- Aristotle

"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
- Wilde, Oscar

"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
- King Jr. Martin Luther

"The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations."
- Humphrey, Hubert H.

"The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate."
- Aristotle

"Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery."
- Cooper, James F.

"Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force."
- Freud, Sigmund

"Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
- Menzies, Robert

"Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination."
- Lewis, Wyndham

"How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what ? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us."
- Longden, John

"To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship."
- Owens, Jesse

"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."
- Allen, Norman

"Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
- Priestley, J. B.

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
- Robbins, Anthony

"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
- Weil, Simone

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."
- Rosten, Leo

"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
- Duffecy, James

"Power in America today is control of the means of communication."
- White, Theodore

"Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God."
- Unknown, Source

"Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints."
- Thoreau, Henry David

"Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time."
- Hayes, James L.

"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
- Bernstein, Leonard

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Colby, Frank Moore

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
- Eliot, T. S.

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
- Humes, James

"Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial."
- Kuhn, Thomas S.

"I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!"
- Lehrer, Tom

"It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions."
- Menander of Athens

"Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows."
- Milton, John

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
- Peters, Thomas J.

"Extremists think communication means agreeing with them."
- Rosten, Leo

"Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person."
- Unknown, Source

"The careful application of terror is also a form of communication."
- Unknown, Source

"The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self."
- White, Elwyn Brooks

"Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict."
- Parslow, Eric

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
- Proust, Marcel

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
- Yeats, William Butler

"Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s."
- Ionesco, Eugene

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication"
- Gerber, Michael E.

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
- Drucker, Peter F.

"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

"Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
- Marshall, John

"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."
- Eliot, George

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
- Rohn, Jim

"In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY."
- Unknown, Source

"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
- Brecht, Bertolt

"Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life."
- Piece, John A.

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
- Robbins, Anthony

"If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions."
- Smalley, Gary

"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."
- Lehrer, Tom

"The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual."
- Warren, Earl

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
- Greer, Germaine

"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
- Rosen, Richard D.

"Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning."
- Unknown, Source

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
- Bonaparte, Napoleon

"Don't hide your strategy under a bushel. Communicate it throughout your company. It's better today to disclose too much that too little."
- Ross, Joel E.

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
- Dickens, Charles

"This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
- Unknown, Source

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
- Montesquieu, Charles De

"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

"Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."
- Allison, Mary Ann

"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting."
- Schaeffer, Francis

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
- Truman, Harry S

"Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod."
- Unknown, Source

"If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us."
- Schaeffer, Francis

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."
- Brown, Les

"All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words."
- Rohn, Jim

"What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication."
- Unknown, Source

"Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act."
- Lembo, John

"The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher."
- Wilde, Oscar

"The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice."
- Bullock, Sandra

"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."
- Hesse, Hermann

"And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
- Eliot, T. S.

"As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth."
- Bayley, Stephen

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
- Hutchins, Robert M.

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."
- Rohn, Jim

"Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us."
- Stowell, Joseph

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life."
- Tracy, Brian

"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
- Wolfe, Thomas

"Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so."
- Auden, W. H.

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable."
- Taylor, Claude

"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

"The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general."
- Woolf, Virginia

"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."
- Breton, Andre

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
- Miller, Henry

"The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire

"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
- Rayburn, Sam

"Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense."
- Stein, Gertrude

"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
- Da Vinci, Leonardo

"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense ? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring."
- Thoreau, Henry David

"Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited."
- Santayana, George

"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Einstein, Albert

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"The best prophet is common sense, our native wit."
- Euripides

"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

"Common Sense is very uncommon."
- Greeley, Horace

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
- Huxley, Thomas H.

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
- Huxley, Thomas H.

"Common Sense is in medicine the master workman."
- Latham, Peter

" That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!"
- Meredith, George

"Common sense hides shame."
- Proverb, Gaelic

"Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
- Shaw, Henry Wheeler

"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."
- Unknown, Source

"The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense is genius in homespun."
- Whitehead, Alfred North

"There is no school of philosphy that approaches ordinary common sense."
- Michael Lipsey

"There is no school of philosophy that approaches ordinary common sense."
- Lipsey, Michael

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
- Hugo, Victor

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
- Beecher, Henry Ward

"Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
- Howe, Edgar Watson

"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it."
- Proverb, Persian

"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
- Terence

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."
- Rowland, Helen

"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
- Deland, Margaret

"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."
- Wang, An

"He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it."
- Proverb

"In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty."
- Unknown, Source

"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
- Davies, Robertson

"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
- Santayana, George

"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."
- Auvil, Myrtle

"Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult."
- Maugham, W. Somerset

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
- Edison, Thomas A.

" A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
- Shaw, George Bernard

"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
- Butler, Samuel

"My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."
- Hepburn, Katharine

"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence."
- Brown, Norman O.

"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
- Vico, Giambattista

"Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
- Huxley, Thomas H.

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Billings, Josh

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
- Descartes, Rene

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

"Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature."
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor."
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

"The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."
- Lowell, James Russell

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something."
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
- Nabokov, Vladimir

"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."
- Addison, Joseph

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
- Wilde, Oscar

"The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch."
- Byron, Lord

"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization."
- Lucan, F. L.

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
- Buddha

"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."
- Maugham, W. Somerset

"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."

- Dillard, Annie

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
- Ward, William A.

If you do not commit to the path, the path cannot commit to you.
- Swami Sai Premananda

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
- Confucius

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
- Markham, Edwin

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
- Navratilova, Martina

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -the pig was 'committed
- Unknown

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
- Billings, Josh

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken [i. e. , committed] to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.
- Coke, Sir Edward

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
- Dworkin, Andrea

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
- Szasz, Thomas

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
- Andretti, Mario

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
- Limbaugh, Rush

Honor your commitments with integrity.
- Brown, Les

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement
- Robbins, Anthony

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
- Saying, Jewish

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
- Ballou, Hosea

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
- Flores, Tom

There's no abiding success without commitment.
- Robbins, Anthony

There's always a way -- if you're committed.
- Robbins, Anthony

Reality forms around a commitment.
- Unknown, Source

A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.
- Unknown, Source

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
- Wattleton., Faye

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He has committed the crime who profits by it.
- Seneca

The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
- Goldman, Emma

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
- Cioran, E. M.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
- Waitley, Denis

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
- Maugham, W. Somerset

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
- Powell, Anthony

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
- Robbins, Anthony

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
- Voltaire

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
- Drucker, Peter F.

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
- Proverb, English

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Gandhi, Mahatma

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
- Johnson

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
- Shakespeare, William

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
- Penn, William

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
- Unknown, Source

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
- Skinner, Cornelia Otis

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
- Coke, Sir Edward

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
- Dahlberg, Edward

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
- Douglas, Mack R.

I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes!
- Fatjo, Tom

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- Plato

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
- Dinkins, David

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
- Seneca

The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
- Proverb

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
- Weil, Simone

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
- Read, Piers Paul

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
- Carter, Jimmy

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- Murdoch, Iris

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
- Conant, James B.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
- Brown, Les

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.
- Twain, Mark

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- Kennedy, John F.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Rowland, Helen

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
- White, Elwyn Brooks

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
- Confucius

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Lombardi, Vince

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
- Jennings, Lynn

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Lombardi, Vince

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
- Adams, John

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Mead, Margaret

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
- Hartog, Jan De

Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
- Gordimer, Nadine

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
- Joyce, James