The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.
Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.
It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.
Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not. . . not settle for it and only it.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
There comes a time in every relationship when it's damaging to seek justice, when settling the score only stirs the fire. There comes a time when the best thing you can do is accept your brother and offer him the same grace you've been given.
Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.
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!
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.
I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.
Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.