Top 82 No Settling Quotes
#1. Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
Samuel Johnson
#2. As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction,
We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way.
Yes, but which way shall we choose?
Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.
Christopher Paolini
#3. Because I had no awareness of who I was or what I needed, I found myself settling for a mediocre relationship rather than holding out for what was best.
Debra Fileta
#4. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
#6. Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge.
Joan D. Vinge
#7. I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.
Josie Natori
#8. The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
James C. Collins
#9. And I don't recommend murder as a way of settling difficult situations. It tends to lead to complications - but not nearly as many as marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
#10. The biggest issue is simply settling down which most Mr. Goodbar will be inclined to do by their mid-thirties. By this time the average Mr. Goodbar will have an attitude of "been there, done that," with women and thus be more amenable to a monogamous relationship.
Rom Wills
#11. Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.
Rinku Sen
#12. This Ayden deserves to be happy, regardless of what the future holds, and this Ayden is the one who has to decide why she is settling for milk and cookies when what she really wants is edible body paint and furry handcuffs.
Jay Crownover
#13. I'm in love with God and God's in love with me, this is who I am and this is who I'll be and that settles it. Completely.
Misty Edwards
#14. The answer was that I had gone through a major transformation the past year and a half, and as I changed myself for the better, better things started coming to me. I was settling for more. And "more" meant more from myself. Doug
Megyn Kelly
#15. It's better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.
Patrick Stevens
#16. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton
#17. You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
Seth Godin
#18. The question of how things will settle down is the only important question ...
Leo Tolstoy
#19. 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
#20. If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.
Richard Ingrams
#21. In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.
Herman Melville
#22. No sense in settling for mediocre minions
A. Dalcourt
#23. ...the coldness settling in his stomach confirmed a truth that had been hiding at the back of his mind. He sat devastated by it, wondering how he could be such a fool. He and Kate were so far apart he might as well be in love with the moon.
M. Ruth Myers
#24. Never settle. There is no reason to rush.
Mark Cuban
#25. Never settle. There is no need to rush.
Mark Cuban
#26. If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.
Phil Angelides
#27. Peace is our inheritance from Jesus, but we have to choose to follow Him daily. Colossians 3:15 teaches us that peace is to be the "umpire" in our lives, settling every issue that needs a decision. To gain and maintain peace in our hearts, we may have to learn to say no to a few things.
Joyce Meyer
#28. The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know ... so I made my own world.
Bijan
#29. No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for hell.
Carolyn Jessop
#30. When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#31. One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.
Marc Guggenheim
#32. Cap'n," said he, at length, with that same uncomfortable smile, "here's my old shipmate, O'Brien; s'pose you was to heave him overboard. I ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash; but I don't reckon him ornamental, now do you?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#33. Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
Oscar Wilde
#34. No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.
Lauren Oliver
#35. I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.
Catherine Sanderson
#36. Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.
Orrin Woodward
#37. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
Howard Schultz
#38. No. I believe that dreams fuel life. And it's when you're chasing them that you're most alive. There's no reward in settling for the safety of status quo.
Kim Holden
#39. After the deep, warm nothingness, there was no pleasure in recalling who he was. Without coming fully awake, he nonetheless felt the weight of his own being settling on his heart. Despair and anger and the constant gnawing worry sounded in his mind like a man in the next room clearing his throat.
George R R Martin
#41. We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.
John Churton Collins
#42. No one ever has the answers you need, the ones you want most, the ones you whisper as you lay alone in your bed with the lights extinguished and the lonely ache of loss settling in.
Lee Thompson
#43. Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.
Sherman Alexie
#44. It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.
Sukarno
#45. There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.
Jeff Olson
#46. In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
Vanessa Mae
#47. She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure.
Nikki Rowe
#48. Her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.
D.B. Reynolds
#49. Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.
Bethenny Frankel
#50. Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one another. Wars between nations have been replaced by civil war. The great settling of accounts, first under national 'pretexts,' led to a rapidly escalating world civil war.
Ernst Junger
#51. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived
Rumi
#52. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.
Mark R. Jones
#53. Lowering my gaze , I walked to my seat, settling in next to Kriss.
"Seriously America?" she whispered.
I tilted my head in her direction. "I'm sorry?" I replied, feigning confusion.
She put her silverware down, and we stared at each other. "You look trashy."
"Well, you look jealous.
Kiera Cass
#54. Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
Harper Lee
#55. Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
Jane Austen
#56. The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.'
Lester Holt
#57. In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.
Michael Kosser
#58. We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.
Ann Coulter
#59. When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.
Jim Rohn
#60. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
Julia Cameron
#61. The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.
Simon Barnes
#62. And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.
Ransom Riggs
#63. I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Henry Miller
#64. Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
Gautama Buddha
#65. The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and rickety baby carriages of the rag pickers with soft powdery snow.
Donald O'Donovan
#66. No, I'm not settling here. I'm going to keep pressing forward.
Joel Osteen
#67. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.
Amy Winehouse
#68. Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
David Ricardo
#69. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.
Audre Lorde
#70. 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
#71. I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#72. Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#73. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
Steve Volk
#74. It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.
Toni Morrison
#75. His words crawled under her skin, settling deep into the crevices of her bones. Without
Alex Gino
#76. For what level of mediocrity will you settle?
Brandon Lee
#77. When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.
Nick Ortner
#78. It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
#79. When I heard what the "B" in LGBTQ stood for, my first feeling was the settling of pieces into order.
Megan Erickson
#80. I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.
Nancy Johnson
#81. [To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
Elizabeth I
#82. Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
Arthur Balfour
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