Settling Quotes

• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Temptation, Simple Life

  Forbes, August 4, 1980.

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• 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

  Want, Imagine

  Jill A. Davis (2003). “Girls' Poker Night: A Novel of High Stakes”, p.6, Random House

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

  Mia Hamm

  Success, Sports, Victory

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Eyeglasses

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• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Army, Years, Colonialism

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

  Tom Cruise

  Mean, Settling In, Disputes

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• I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

  David Ginola

  Found, Flats, Offers

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• There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Mean, People

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• 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

  Thinking, Waiting, Secret

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• Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Believe, Mind, Looks

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• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

  Rinku Sen

  Lasting Change, Information, Lasting

  "An Open Letter to Starbucks and ‘USA Today’" by Rinku Sen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.

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• Ignorance never settles a question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5013, Delphi Classics

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• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  Briana Scurry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

  Jerry Rice

  Inspirational, Nfl, Enemy

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• Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

  George H. Mead

  Stupid, Differences, Different

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• Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.

  Catherine Ponder

  Thinking, Different, Littles

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• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

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• It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

  Joyce Meyer

  Responsibility, People, Effort

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Government

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• Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Integrity

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from Dec 12, 2016

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