Settle For The Best Quotes

#1. Sometimes you just can't have what you want so you have to settle for the best you can get.

Martina Reilly

#2. Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.

M. Lincoln Schuster

#3. None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers - a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.

Paul Ryan

#4. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#5. In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Oscar Wilde

#6. She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.

Julia Quinn

#7. a paradox; the best opportunities we want are the best opportunities we miss; the best opportunities we wanted, are the best opportunities we missed and the best opportunities we seek for stay far away from us. In the end, we only settle for any opportunity. Life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same.
Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
Keep from letting fear make you settle for second best.

Kiera Cass

#9. 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

#10. Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career ... ANYWHERE!

Mandy Hale

#11. I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.

Scott Weiss

#12. Our goal is to be among the best nations worldwide because the Emirati people will settle for nothing less than the best.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#13. 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

#14. If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality!

Mandy Hale

#15. The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

Craig Groeschel

#16. Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

Jodi Picoult

#17. Your determination and energy will be proportionate to your goal. Therefore, set a high goal for yourself and do not settle for anything less than the very best. The best is exactly what you will get if you accept no less.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#18. Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me ... constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

Dean Dillon

#19. Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

#21. Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

Tony Robbins

#22. In Haven, old houses didn't settle. They carried a life of their own, and Blackwater farm was no exception. This was a house that would never be a home. The best they could hope for would be to co-exist with the ghosts of the past.
- The Silent Twin

Caroline Mitchell

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

Kyra Davis

#24. Do you stick with the position you've mastered? Or do you push yourself to master the position that seems out of reach? Do you listen to what everyone else thinks is best for you? Or do you listen to your own voice? Do you settle? Or do you dream?

Reggie Love

#25. These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

Patrick Macnee

#26. I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

Kevin Durant

#27. Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

Angela Bassett

#28. The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.

Auliq Ice

#29. They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.

Marilyn Grey

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

LaQuita Cameron

#31. Don't tolerate any form of average. Don't accept Dis-excellence. Don't stand for mediocre. If you're going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Robin Sharma

#32. Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn't SETTLE for it.

Mandy Hale

#33. Don't trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don't settle for less, wait for God's best.

Alex Gonzaga

#34. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.

Mandy Hale

#35. Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Bo Bennett

#36. Don't settle ... wait for the one who treats you like an investment; not a test drive. Someone who inspires you to be at your best ... One who looks beyond your outer beauty and falls in love with your soul.

Steve Maraboli

#37. And however much the princess was assured that in our time young people themselves must settle their fate, she was unable to believe it, as she would have been unable to believe that in anyone's time the best toys for five-year-old children would be loaded pistols.

Leo Tolstoy

#38. Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

Scott Adams

#39. If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less.

Lil' Wayne

#40. If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Lisa Kleypas

#41. You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.

Don Shula

#42. I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.

Davy Crockett