Top 100 Settle Quotes
#1. On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
Hale Irwin
#2. 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
#3. Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.
Joe Pesci
#4. If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
Rumi
#5. I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.
Kimbra
#6. I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.
- Oliver Hazzard-Perry
Melissa De La Cruz
#7. Sometimes I think if we didn't have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we'd all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we'd have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.
Daniel Clausen
#8. To settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that
Ayn Rand
#9. Jargon live in the swamps. They feed on attention. If they can't get that, they'll settle for fear and confusion. ... A little Jargon doesn't look like much. Some people even keep them as pets. But they form packs, and they are very dangerous.
Carlos Bueno
#10. Nico didn't respond. He'd never had anyone talk to him this openly before, except maybe for Hazel. He felt like he was watching a flock of birds settle on a field. One loud sound might startle them away.
Rick Riordan
#11. It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.
The Miz
#12. If you don't want to be a side piece, or a friend with benefits, don't settle for that from any man.
Kristen Proby
#13. I will demand a puppy if I am forced to move to Fiji.
But I will settle for a bunny.
David Levithan
#15. Guns never settle anything, I said. They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act
Raymond Chandler
#16. Slang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown up, mostly to pass away; though occasionally to settle and permanently chrystallize.
Walt Whitman
#17. Sam to Jory I knew the difference then, I know the difference now. You're it, you're home for me. If it's not you, it won't be anybody. I can't settle, it's all or nothing.
Mary Calmes
#18. When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.
Nelson Mandela
#19. I was your lover Liam, but never your partner. I won't settle for that, not even for you. You had my heart in your hands, and you didn't know what to do with it. I can tell you, without the crystal ball, without the gift, you will never have another like it.
Nora Roberts
#20. Weariness seemed to settle on him like a coating of dust.
Maria V. Snyder
#22. It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
Alice Hoffman
#23. Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
David Roberts
#24. I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.
Michael Franti
#25. Don't let setbacks and disappointments convince you to ever give up and settle for less than you are. Be the great and amazing person, that you were born to be!
Timothy Pina
#26. We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going ... When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.
Michael Shurtleff
#27. You must come to grips with yourself and settle in your spirit that not all open doors are meant for you and not all favors are friendly
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#28. It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. When you identify the discomfort, you've found the place where a leader is needed.
Seth Godin
#29. Sadly, one of the few places where bumblebees generally won't settle is in the bumblebee nest boxes widely sold in garden centres. Whatever
Dave Goulson
#30. It is a truth that we should not settle for less, but in the 21st century it is the constant pursuit for more that ruins many.
Hope D. Blackwell
#31. 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
#32. In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.
Orrin Hatch
#33. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
W. Somerset Maugham
#34. But I think we often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school.
Marge Piercy
#35. Though everyone I knew seemed to be either settling down or looking to settle down, I was never on a deep-sea fishing expedition to find a boyfriend. And a "great catch," well, that seemed to be begging for heartache.
Julie Buxbaum
#36. In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
Sun Myung Moon
#37. Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and right the wrongs of Versailles...and then to settle down and govern the county in the interest of those millions of oppressed "little people" for whom he spoke so eloquently.
Upton Sinclair
#38. Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Joel Osteen
#39. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.
Jonathan Hull
#40. Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.
Dan Miller
#41. The truth of the matter was no boy I knew lived up to the fantasy I'd created from the many books I'd read, and I wasn't going to settle.
Natasha Boyd
#42. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.
Irving Townsend
#43. The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.
Will Self
#45. When I see imposters like ... Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.
James Turner
#46. All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
Dalai Lama
#47. There was no sign of Jules.
"Bad news," said Elliot. "The man is sick. You're going to have to settle for me."
"Sick?" Vee demanded. "How sick? What kind of excuse is sick?"
"Sick as in it's coming out both ends."
Vee scrunched her nose. "Too much information.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#48. Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.
Reggie Jackson
#49. You can't always make good choices. Sometimes you have to settle for making a choice you can live with.
Vikki Wakefield
#50. Be more than a person she would settle for ... be a person she would yearn for.
Steve Maraboli
#51. They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.
Isaac Asimov
#52. I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply
"But I love my books too much to desecrate them like that. I'll settle for my boot.
Maya Banks
#53. 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
#54. Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
David Suzuki
#55. Sorrow was like sleeping on stone,he (Brenden)decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them,fit them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed wherever you went.
Patricia A. McKillip
#56. Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.
John C. Maxwell
#57. Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.
Dillon Burroughs
#58. I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.
Jaggi Vasudev
#60. Tornados touch down. They don't settle. They leave destruction in their wake.
Karen Marie Moning
#61. Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll settle for the screams of the dying.
Jonathan Stroud
#62. Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
Marianne Williamson
#63. As I pulled the covers up and let Micah settle in next to me, I heard Mom's voice in my ears: Children need to get used to being in the dark. She'd repeated that countless times throughout my childhood. No, I thought, they don't.
Ruth Wariner
#64. I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
Bob Black
#65. Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
Jane Fonda
#67. If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#68. 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
#69. I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
David Attenborough
#70. He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.
Thomas Hughes
#71. The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
Karl Kraus
#72. In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.
Ian Hacking
#73. The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.
Demetri Martin
#74. Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
Albert Camus
#75. An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.
Shatrujeet Nath
#76. 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
#77. Settle down, Princess. It's not my first time.
Ilona Andrews
#78. We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
William Styron
#79. Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!
Dave Mustaine
#80. I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.
Jeremy Grantham
#81. Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
Emily Giffin
#82. Don't settle for less than God's best for you".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#83. Study your lessons, don't settle for less.
Tupac Shakur
#84. Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.
Bill Murray
#86. When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.
John O'Donohue
#87. Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.
Lorrie Moore
#88. Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to.
Nikki Rowe
#89. Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.
Ellis Peters
#90. No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
Hannah Murray
#91. 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
#92. I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!
Robert H. Schuller
#93. Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.
Bil Keane
#94. Having had that experience ... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
Tom Selleck
#95. How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
Seth Godin
#96. ALLY: Ladies, listen: do not settle in life.
Find a way to love yourself; screw anyone else who tells you otherwise.
Life is too short to simply sit back and take what's given to you.
LeTeisha Newton
#97. I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.
Steve Nash
#98. I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
Mackenzie Davis
#99. 'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#100. And fit, and he carried himself with a confident poise that inspired trust and respect. He gestured at one of the two seats in front of his glass-and-chrome desk and waited until I sat to settle into his Aeron chair. Against the backdrop of sky and skyscrapers, Mark looked accomplished and powerful.
Sylvia Day
