Top 100 Settle Life Quotes
#1. In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
Steve Pavlina
#2. I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
Tyler Perry
#3. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
John F. Kennedy
#4. One day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.
E.L. Doctorow
#5. Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.
Debasish Mridha
#6. In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
Gene Tunney
#7. After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
Brittany Murphy
#8. 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
#9. I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.
Gayle Forman
#10. ... 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
#11. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.
Sofia Grey
#12. The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
James C. Collins
#13. The men were less interesting to look at, but nearly all had that air about them that I could sometimes detect in Will
of wealth and entitlement, a sense that life would settle itself agreeably around them.
Jojo Moyes
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. No one tells you that you should never settle for anything less than what you want.
Alice Walsh
#17. Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn't SETTLE for it.
Mandy Hale
#18. Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.
Joey Comeau
#19. 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
#20. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.
C.S. Lewis
#22. To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
Ellen Stofan
#23. 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
#24. We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
Bob Goff
#25. What you settle for in life is often what you get out of it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#26. Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#27. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.
Mandy Hale
#28. That's how we both got committed to this enormous delusion - because that's what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion - this idea that people have to resign from real life and 'settle down' when they have families.
Richard Yates
#29. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playin' for keeps. What I'm searching for is a man who'll stand by me: who will walk through the fire and be my flame in the night. I won't settle for less than what I deserve: a friend and a lover who'll love me for the rest of my life.
LeAnn Rimes
#30. So this subject is done with. It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly
Charlotte Bronte
#31. Jesus doesn't come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won't settle for being an accessory, an add- on, or a peaceful accompaniment to a nice life. No, He will rule and He will meddle.
Justin Buzzard
#32. Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential
whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.
Kevin Eikenberry
#33. He'd told me time and again to live my life, enjoy it, figure out who I was and what I wanted, and only then go out and find it. And when I did, not to settle for anything less.
Kristen Ashley
#34. A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.
Nikki Rowe
#35. You're not done growing. I see you sometimes thinking about shit, and I think you want more than to settle with life. You want to do more, but you're stuck. That's not age. That's a choice. Your life was stale because you settled.
Bijou Hunter
#36. The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.
John C. Maxwell
#37. I don't settle down. I don't follow any path.
Because I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!
Avijeet Das
#38. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.
Michael Mina
#39. The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.
John Piper
#40. 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
#41. Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me.
Sarah Ockler
#42. Yeah." Rhage sighed. "All I want is one good female. But I guess I'll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn't it?
J.R. Ward
#43. There was nothing like the cold, heavy steel of a gun, the soft moan of an appreciative woman or the sharp burn of a good single malt to make a man grateful to be alive. Tonight, with his gun gone and his sex life a wasteland, Dash had to settle for whiskey.
Amy Andrews
#44. Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
David Burnett
#45. Never settle ... go after your dreams aggressively. Ignore the doubters, step over them. Stay focus on your prize.
Michael Barbarulo
#46. Every dream is worth following in life. Never settle for the minimum when you can have so much more.
Taneisha LaGrant
#47. Learn to value yourself enough to walk away from the crap in life and never settle for less than you deserve.
Parul Wadhwa
#48. Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don't happen, I'd rather have nothing but know I didn't settle for something I didn't want!
Salma Hayek
#49. Love and be loved. Settle for no less. Ask for no more.
Truth Devour
#50. The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.
James, Son Of Zebedee
#51. It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.
Douglas Booth
#53. She spent her life, she realised, impassively content and yet unable to settle.
Lara Williams
#54. My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.
Hope Lyda
#55. When I started to get older and I thought, "Well, you know now I'm kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give to children now." Because I feel like I've done everything that I wanted to do in my entire life.
James, Son Of Zebedee
#56. Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#57. I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?
Angelina Jolie
#58. 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
#59. Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career ... ANYWHERE!
Mandy Hale
#60. The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson
#61. Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#62. 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
#63. Never settle for the crumbs of life.
Og Mandino
#64. When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#65. Spread joy. Become a beacon of hope and love. Settle down your differences and talk it out. Don't let grievances spoil your faith and in turn spoil your heart.
Sulaiman Dawood
#66. Don't settle down into an "old married man" while you are still in the prime of life. Take your wife out and about; give parties; visit your friends; and you will keep much younger than if you settle into the smoking-jacket and slippers habit.
Blanche Ebbutt
#67. 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
#68. I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
Wilbur Smith
#69. Don't ever settle for something short of amazing in whatever you do in your life - there are a myriad of paths and choices to be made. Seek out the signs that speak to your heart and follow them. Then rely on God to protect you the rest of the journey.
Sieni A.M.
#70. If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality!
Mandy Hale
#71. Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.
Martina Boone
#72. There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it
Abbi Glines
#73. It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn't call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.
Francis Chan
#74. You can't always keep your loved ones with you. You can't always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you'll always be at home.
Marieke Nijkamp
#75. Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.
S.R. Crawford
#76. Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in the ass sometimes to get me moving on my journey.
Jennifer DeLucy
#77. Am I supposed to settle down and live the same life as everyone else?
Libby Cole
#78. If he is not going anywhere in life, then look him straight in the eyes and inform him that you are not going anywhere with him either.
Moffat Machingura
#79. I did not come this far to settle for less than I deserve.
April WIlliams
#80. The right choice isn't to retire, to simply settle in and invite death. It's to work hard and passionately, but acknowledge the limitations of what one life is capable of.
Jeff Goins
#81. I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.
Eric Thomas
#82. I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
Adriana Trigiani
#83. The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!
Dionna L. Hayden
#84. The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships.
Brian Tracy
#85. Perhaps that was life's only way to settle the dust after the enormous storm we had just survived together.
Ramona Matta
#86. I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
Sally Mann
#87. I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more
much, much more.
Melody Carlson
#88. Don't pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.
Anthony Liccione
#89. Nothing in life ever was a complete and one hundred per cent success, but often one could well afford to settle for less, and this would seem to be the greatest lesson one could learn in life.
Paul Gallico
#90. I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.
Lorna Sage
#92. We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
Anthony Liccione
#93. Relationships: If you put up with it, you're going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don't settle for less.
Steve Maraboli
#94. I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.
Aubrey O'Day
#95. We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
Christine Caine
#96. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
Wally Lamb
#97. Don't just settle for surviving; Settle to make impacts. Life is deliberate; It's about making a difference!
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. Our wandering life isn't over yet and before we definitely settle in Peru, a country that I admire in many ways, or in Argentina, we want to see a bit of Europe and two fascinating countries, India and China.
Hilda Gadea
#99. Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life.
Hal Elrod
#100. Catherine wasn't going to settle. Not in life, and not in love.
Karen Kingsbury
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