Settle 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

Great, Heart, Find

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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.
Steve Jobs

Life, Love, Work

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Once, Happens

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

Risk, Willing, Ordinary

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin

Mankind, Agree, Convinced

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy

Great, War, Alone

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

Human, Temptation, Biggest

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca

Best, Society, Else

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey

Love, Hard, Down

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor

Life, Family, Down

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
Bo Bennett

Life, Best, Human

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson

Life, Time, After

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
Rose Kennedy

Good, Morning, Sleep

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
Mario Batali

Evening, Eyes, Try

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Morgan Freeman

Music, School, Interested

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.
Rick Perry

Fight, Why, Question

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert

Question, Debate, Settling

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

Less, Might, Known

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Important, Older

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
David Ogilvy

Leave, Aim, Routine

I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
Rick Perry

Change, Respect, Yourself

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown

Down, Again, Last

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Music, Live

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
Adele

Family, Time, Down

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin

Down, Texas, Ok

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
Lee Krasner

Work, Hard, Painful

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
Sun Myung Moon

Peace, God, Forget

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

May, Whatever, Cherish

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

Life, Making, Stand

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
Wynton Marsalis

Succeed, Style, Substance

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Settle Definition

Robert Frost

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us