Top 63 Settling Life Quotes
#1. IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET
Mo Stegall
#2. I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
James C. Collins
#7. Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn't SETTLE for it.
Mandy Hale
#8. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. This was the second stage in my life, a step in my personal evolution
abandoning the idea of being different, and settling for normal ... Gradually I drew nearer to the world, and the world drew nearer to me.
Haruki Murakami
#10. 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
#11. Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene lamp and let the ghosts fly their asses off
Jack Kerouac
#12. But the world is winding down, and you take what you're given.
M.R. Carey
#13. We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
Bob Goff
#14. The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling
settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
Billy Graham
#15. The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.
John Assaraf
#16. The long soft life is what I feel I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be. But
Don DeLillo
#17. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.
Mandy Hale
#18. I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.
P.D. James
#19. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?
Daphne Oz
#21. The world needs more dreamers, more peak performers, more people who aren't content settling for mediocre. It's time to stand up and create the future and life you love.
Michelle McCullough
#22. 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
#23. I think life is just a process of settling for less and pretending you never wanted more." - Elizabeth
Ruth Madison
#24. Don't be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
Shannon L. Alder
#25. Don't you 'baby' me, you backwoods barbarian. I'm not settling for bringing you pie and beer for the rest of my life. I have plans. They don't include marriage to you.
Virginia Nelson
#26. Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.
Kosho Uchiyama
#27. Of this crisis in my life, I remember chiefly a sense of tremendous inevitability, a feeling that fate was settling its own problems, and too much reflection would be out of place.
Anthony Powell
#28. Do not be afraid to enter the cloud that is settling down on your life. God is in it. The other side is radiant with His glory.
L.B. Cowman
#29. Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.
Mandy Hale
#31. Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.
Abigail Tarttelin
#32. Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.
George Washington
#33. 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
#34. The greatest temptation you will ever have in your life is to give up on what you truly want because it seemed to difficult to have. If you put your loyalty into anything, put it into believing in yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.
A.J. Darkholme
#36. Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.
Orrin Woodward
#37. Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career ... ANYWHERE!
Mandy Hale
#38. Some people went their whole lives without finding their soul mate and living with the feeling of discontent inside. Settling for a life that wasn't really theirs and knowing it in the depth
M.L. Briers
#39. Life is just a series of choices. We try to always make the best ones, but really we're just settling for the lesser of two evils. Or at least trying to.
S.L. Jennings
#40. Never settle for the crumbs of life.
Og Mandino
#41. What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Albert Camus
#42. Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.
Liam Neeson
#43. 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
#44. The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#45. My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.
Meghan Daum
#46. Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority.
Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential.
Tony Curl
#47. If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality!
Mandy Hale
#48. So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.
Michael Hyatt
#49. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?
Soseki Natsume
#50. I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.
Eric Thomas
#51. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. The town's young parents especially prized this idea of Newton as a child's paradise. Many of them had left the hip, sophisticated city to move here. They had accepted massive expenses, stultifying monotony, and the queasy disappointment of settling for a conventional life. To
William Landay
#53. Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
#54. It wasn't who I had wanted to become, but simply who I was comfortable being.
Wendy Owens
#55. Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.
Jill Davis
#56. I did not hesitate to quit my courses and leave my apartment, feeling as detached from everything as only at twenty-three one feels, when all is temporary and settling down means to stagnate
Edgar Cantero
#57. If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more.
Jill Conner Browne
#58. Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all
T. S. Eliot
#60. Settling for less is just like putting diamonds on the clearance rack. Know your worth because just what you accept in your life will be exactly what you get.
~S. Turner~
Shatika Turner
#61. 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
#62. SPIKE: Settling down is only good for one kind of man.
JESSE: The p*ssy kind?
SPIKE: Nah, the strong sort. You're a strong man, and you're honest. Never thought I'd think about those two words and you in the same sentence.
JESSE: I couldn't be a big d*ck all my life.
Sam Crescent
#63. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.
Mandy Hale
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