Top 100 Never Settle Sayings

#1. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.

Kaylin McFarren

#2. Never settle for less than what you imagined possible for yourself

Jerel Hill

#3. I might be many things, but I am also smart enough to learn from the past. Smart enough to know that no man who oozes so much alpha male will be happy with a woman who isn't weak. Or, he won't settle until he makes me weak, and I will never be that bitch.

Harper Sloan

#4. It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

Kiki Dee

#5. You never meant me to be the guy you'd settle down with. Not the safe guy you'd love, but the dangerous one who makes your pulse race.

Renee Rose

#6. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#7. Rocky shook his head. "The dude is a closet case. I saw it. He wants it, but he's never had it. His gayginity is intact. And I mean it. Never again. I'm going to find a nice homo and settle down.

Brad Vance

#8. Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

Andre Gide

#9. When life gives you lemons, take out the salt and the shot-glasses and fill them up with tequila. Fight for what you really want and never, ever settle for anything less. Don't exist. Live.

Teodora Kostova

#10. Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.

Earl Nightingale

#11. Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at the base of the mountain instead. There aren't as many obstacles, or avalanches, or unexpected delays. But they'll never be able to see the view from the top.

Katie Kacvinsky

#12. ... when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence ... in love, never settle ... value yourself first and this will help you to value others ... life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest ... everyone in the world is different, and that's ok ...

Spider Robinson

#13. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

Rob Liano

#14. Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

Dwight L. Moody

#15. When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

Craig Groeschel

#16. I need to know that you'll think about the good times we shared, and never settle for anything less than how you felt in those moments.

Lisa De Jong

#17. Never settle up for something that is lesser than what you expected.

Anamika Mishra

#18. I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.

Josie Natori

#19. You'll never get over Ilan. And that will one day horrify you. But soon enough you'll settle on a replacement object for all that love of yours, which does you about as much good as a life jacket in a train wreck.

Rivka Galchen

#20. The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

Rajneesh

#21. I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Tom Wolfe

#22. I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Doug Martsch

#23. Always strive for the best, and never settle for less!

LaQuita Cameron

#24. I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.

Lee Ann Womack

#25. I've been exactly that lonly. You're not connected to anything. Some nights it feels like you're dying by the hour. You're so desperate you can't even attract the kind of person you once swore you'd never settle for.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. How virtuous can you be in this gloomy, deceitful world? I find it hard to answer the question, but I tell you this, I want to be a man of complete integrity, who will always stick to his principles and never settle for anything less.

Aishah Madadiy

#27. I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

Amanda Bynes

#28. She was a journeyman trapper and caretaker of Denver Beck's heart. Even Hell knew her name.
Blackthorne's daughter would never settle for "okay" ever again.
From now on, it's awesome or nothing.

Jana Oliver

#29. I need you to understand that you'll never have to settle for pieces of me. You shouldn't be settling at all. You deserve so much better. You could have anyone -

Sylvia Day

#30. No one tells you that you should never settle for anything less than what you want.

Alice Walsh

#31. We have to keep looking and never give up believing that someday, we will find what we seek. Keep looking. Don't settle. Don't accept. Believe.

Emily March

#32. The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not ... not settle for it and only it ...

Alyson Noel

#33. He merely accepted that this was unique and so special he would never be able to settle for anything less again.

Julie Garwood

#34. At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.

Anna Gavalda

#35. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

Aleksandra Mir

#37. We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

Kurt Hahn

#38. If I had my way ... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down ... You can see it in their eyes ...

Hugh Lofting

#39. Never settle for just good enough, settle for greatness.

James Bundy

#40. You can always have the best, Kasie," I say quietly. "A woman like you never has to settle for anything.

Kyra Davis

#41. How many times must I tell that lad never to settle himself with his back to a door?

Frank Herbert

#42. If in life you choose something that is your second choice, whether it be clothes, a relationship, or a career, then don't choose it. Wait until you can have your first choice. Never settle for second best.

Steven Aitchison

#43. I don't need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

Bruce Feirstein

#45. Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!

RYCJ

#46. The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

Emile Lahoud

#47. We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

John Bradford

#48. One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

Edward R. Murrow

#49. Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you

Katherine Allred

#50. Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied

Nick Macri

#51. Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Samuel Johnson

#52. Now and then I'd catch my mother looking at my like she was thinking about her life, like she was about to say something, but she never did. I didn't expect it. Sometimes it's better not to go back
just settle accounts as they are, call it even.

Mark Slouka

#53. I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped.

Maisie Williams

#54. Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Dalai Lama

#55. Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

Talib Kweli

#56. Never settle ... go after your dreams aggressively. Ignore the doubters, step over them. Stay focus on your prize.

Michael Barbarulo

#57. Every dream is worth following in life. Never settle for the minimum when you can have so much more.

Taneisha LaGrant

#58. Never stop and never settle but settle down for the one who lets you draw cities on their skin with the tips of your fingers.

Pleasefindthis

#59. I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Jonathan Culver

#60. Learn to value yourself enough to walk away from the crap in life and never settle for less than you deserve.

Parul Wadhwa

#61. There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.

Douglas Kennedy

#62. Your soul can never be long going to the fixed stars, where I intend to settle; or else you may find me in the milky way.

Michael Kelahan

#63. NEVER settle for 'normal.

Marla Buchanan

#64. "No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?"

"Nope. I've taken Mr. Wu's advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it."

"Wow - where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?"

Kerstin Gier

#65. I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#66. Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Barack Obama

#67. Someone's taught me to expect more out of people and never to settle.

Katie Kacvinsky

#68. You are uniquely unique, don't settle for less and never try to fit in

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#69. According to a new study, 63% of men surveyed said they like to settle an argument by having sex. The other 37% of the men said they would never want to get into an argument with those men.

Jay Leno

#70. Violence never settles anything.

Genghis Khan

#71. Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#72. Never settle for less than fabulous.

Jan Stafford Kellis

#73. You should never get set over the ball and then aim your putter face. If you do it in that order, you can easily lose sight of your intended line. Instead, aim the face down your line first, then settle your body into position.

Ernie Els

#74. It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

Luis Suarez

#75. The ... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

Augustus John

#76. Never give up, Never Settle for Less

Kesha Cox

#77. Never settle for good when great is available.

Orrin Woodward

#78. One of these days you're going to fall in love, son. Don't settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn't come easy; the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting. Never

Jamie McGuire

#79. They make you settle for second best."
That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself.
"You never get what you want.

Connie Willis

#80. If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.

Rodney Atkins

#81. It's so weird how life is so full of moving around
people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.

Natalie Lloyd

#82. Yes, Min. This is how it should be." Raw need edged his voice. "Never settle for less. Be fearless. Wild and loud and lovely. God, you're so lovely.

Tessa Dare

#83. Never settle for the crumbs of life.

Og Mandino

#84. Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"

Emily Yoffe

#85. You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

Elaine S. Dalton

#86. Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

Frederick Lenz

#87. Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

Jillian Michaels

#88. If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.

Stephenie Meyer

#89. Never settle for anything less than your best.

Brian Tracy

#90. Never settle or be satisfied with compromise.

Steven Redhead

#91. I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Matthew Settle

#92. Like that their dreams were set. They promised to push each other, to never settle for anything but the place where their hearts led.

Karen Kingsbury

#93. You never settle for anything less than a man who will fight for you. The man who gives you that feeling from your scalp to your toes. The one who will always be by your side and it may be the new man or an old man, but it doesn't matter.

Kim Carmichael

#94. Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one's ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

Sylvia Plath

#95. Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.

Ruskin Bond

#96. Why do you want to be a vampire?" he asked. "It is not much fun. We can only come out at night. Humans despise us. We have to sleep in dirty old places like this. We can never marry or have children or settle down. It is a horrible life.

Darren Shan

#97. Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

Danielle Steel

#98. There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

Matt Corby

#99. If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.

Billy Joel

#100. Never settle for average

Steve Jobs

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