Best 164 quotes in «settling quotes» category

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

We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to achieve greatness!

Whenever you create anything, you take a risk. And that includes your life. It may work out, it may not. It may be well received, it may not be. . . . It's always a risk to take action. It might not work, it might blow up in your face, you might lose money, you might fail. No one may get it. But that's not the only risk. There's another risk: the risk of not trying it. How is not trying a risk? You risk settling and continuing in the same direction in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

When we have waited a long time for what we really want, we become temped to fill the emptiness with unworthy substiutes. Don't.

With headlines like "Marry Now or Never," the specter of marriage loomed. It was a constant fear, a threat, a reminder. But Sylvia wasn't baited by those pretty tales of line and hook: the bride-white cake, the prime rib and steak, marriage- that bleak fable- with Husband cast as warden, the future dead clear and blighted.

You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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. And that's his idea of a compromise.

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

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?

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

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.

If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!

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.

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

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