Best 164 quotes in «settling quotes» category

It wasn't who I had wanted to become, but simply who I was comfortable being.

Next time you hit a speed bump otherwise known as the age-old question “Why are you still single?” look ’em in the eye and say: “Because I’m too fabulous to settle.

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

I was so tired. I just wanted to curl up with someone, anyone, even him, and sleep until work on Monday. I wanted to feel someone’s, anyone’s, hands on me, even if it was in that way I hate, the fingers all over my face and jaw.

Nora remembered drawing in the sand of her future with a stick. What she couldn't recall was when the sand had become cement, the who-I-want-to-be turned for once and for all into who-I-am.

So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.

Rural solitude, which provides ample themes for the intellect and sweet occupations innumerable for the minor sentiments, often denies a ready object for those stronger passions that enter no less than the others into the human constitution. The suspended pathos finds its remedy in settling on the first intrusive shape that happens to be reasonably well organized for the purpose, disregarding social and other minor accessories. Where the solitude is shadowed by the secret melancholies of the solitary, this natural law is still surer in operation.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

Settling for someone average, I want someone who makes me a better person and who makes me do the unthinkable, someone who I am painfully in love with to the point that there could never be anyone else.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

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

Since most of us are stubborn to admit that we made a mistake, we would rather settle for what we bought.

Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many.

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.

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

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

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.

There are settling girls, and there are unsettling girls. The ones who seem to have it in them to be flyers are the ones who want to snuggle into settling. The ones who look as settled as old housedogs want to twist their way into flying. Necessarily, you must be defensive about being a settling sort of girl.

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

[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.

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!

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

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?

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

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.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

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.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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

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

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

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.