I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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.
Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.
It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.
You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.
When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.
It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through
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.
The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less
She should get a divorce and settle down.
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.