Never Settle For Less Quotes

I'm stronger with Cheyenne. Sure, I never settle for less than my best, but my best is better with my sister beside me. The realization brings me a weird sense of calm. Not peace, exactly, but resolution. ~ Paula Stokes

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half. ~ Talib Kweli

Never settle for less than your best. ~ David Lorenzo Morillas Fernandez

Learn to value yourself enough to walk away from the crap in life and never settle for less than you deserve. ~ Parul Wadhwa

For you see, Captain Flint, I, too, never settle for less than what I want. Or never thought I possibly could. I'm a Redmond. If only you truly understood what this means. So I set out to reorder the world in a way I thought would make me worthy of her love. But my quest has changed me in ways I never anticipated, and I'm not the man who once loved that girl. There's much more to my journey yet. And here's a bitter irony: I've found in becoming heroic, in becoming worthy of her, I've painted myself into an untenable corner. I've more work to do to prove someone's innocence or guilt. ~ Julie Anne Long

We are what we allow ourselves to become. Never settle for less than what you deserve. Keep fighting the good fight! Keep giving your all to achieve, receive and succeed ~ Cecibel Contreras

Yes, Min. This is how it should be." Raw need edged his voice. "Never settle for less. Be fearless. Wild and loud and lovely. God, you're so lovely. ~ Tessa Dare

Never give up, Never Settle for Less ~ Kesha Cox

Never settle for less than what you imagined possible for yourself ~ Jerel Hill

Never settle for an ordinary lover, never settle for less than you deserve, you are so worthy of being loved so passionately and madly.
You deserve to be loved as whole with all your imperfections and flaws, you deserve someone who puts you first as if you were the only thing that matters, you deserve someone who will always choose to stay when you are on your lowest and you deserve someone who will always choose to love you even when you are not so lovable.. ~ Samiha Totanji

When you make an absolute statement, you assume a sense of personal integrity based on a pretense of moral objectivity, which exists only as a faulty heuristic to arrive at an easy conclusion, and deny yourself the responsibility of choice - it's more convenient not to acknowledge your freedom and settle for a less desirable outcome on the grounds that you had no choice, rather than risk acquiring the less desirable outcome by your own will, regardless of the possibility for a better one. ~ Drew Lerman

Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself. ~ Suze Orman

Don't settle for less than is possible. ~ Tom Peters

Jesus doesn't come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won't settle for being an accessory, an add- on, or a peaceful accompaniment to a nice life. No, He will rule and He will meddle. ~ Justin Buzzard

You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself. ~ Don Shula

even when women can imagine changes that might increase their productivity at work, their happiness at home, or their overall contentment with their lives, their suppressed sense of entitlement creates real barriers to their asking. Because they're not dissatisfied with what they have and not sure they deserve more, women often settle for less. ~ Linda Babcock

If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less. ~ Lil' Wayne

Badasses know what they want, definitely know what they need, and don't settle for anything less. ~ Kristen Ashley

There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous peoples. That is all we ask. And we will settle for nothing less. ~ Arthur Manuel

In How Fiction Works, James Wood says,

A great deal of nonsense is written every day about characters in fiction - from the side of those who believe too much in character and from the side of those who believe too little. Those who believe too much have an iron set of prejudices about what characters are: we should get to "know" them; . . . they should "grow" and "develop"; and they should be nice. So they should be pretty much like us.
Wood is correct, in part, but the ongoing question of character likability leaves the impression that what we're looking for in fiction is an ideal world where people behave in ideal ways. The question suggests that characters should be reflections not of us, but of our better selves.
Wood also says, "There is nothing harder than the creation of fictional character." I can attest to this difficulty, though with perhaps less hyperbole. I have, indeed, found several other tasks harder over the years. Regardless, characters are hard to create because we need to develop people who are interesting enough to hold a reader's attention. We need to ensure that they are some measure of credible. We need to make them distinct from ourselves (and, in the best of all words, from those in our lives, unless of course there is a need to settle scores). Somehow they need to be well developed enough to carry a plot, or carry a narrative without a plot, or endure the tribulations we writers tend to throw at them with alacrity. It's no wonde ~ Roxane Gay

When it comes
to love
do not ever
settle
for anything
less than magical. ~ Sanober Khan

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

The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less. ~ Auliq Ice

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve. ~ Bethenny Frankel

Someday you'll find the right person, Mari, and you'll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That's what I think. So don't settle for anything less. ~ Haruki Murakami

> First, move out of that big Manhattan loft and head upstate. You'll find a little place you can afford and start a new life. Maybe get a job teaching at a community college. Maybe meet a girl at Best Buy, start dating. She'll put up with your crazy habits. You'll put up with her musical tastes.

> I don't understand. What's going on here?

> Time will pass. You'll make it official. You'll settle down, get a starter house. Two boys. Yellow Lab. Minivan.

> That. . . That isn't me.

> Why not? It could be. You'll make art in the basement for yourself for a while. The boys'll get married. Have kids of their own. Maybe y'get divorced. Meet someone new. And yeah, you'll wonder what could have been. But less, as the years go by. "Just wasn't meant to be," you'll say. And there'll be good times along the way. Sweet memories. Until it starts to wind down. Until your body fails. Until you don't recognize the world around you. Until it's time to go.

> That. . . isn't me. It can't be.

> Why not? It's a decent life. Food, sex, running water, a roof. Not to mention love and family. Those aren't small things.

> But it's not enough.

> You kids, you're so spoiled! Y'know billions would kill for a life like that. So what if the art thing didn't work out? Is it really that important?

> It's all I have. ~ Scott McCloud

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? ~ Seth Godin

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are. ~ Martina Boone

It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.
Or perhaps a variation of what you once wanted.
Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives? ~ Cecelia Ahern

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less. ~ Jerrold Nadler

It is a truth that we should not settle for less, but in the 21st century it is the constant pursuit for more that ruins many. ~ Hope D. Blackwell

If you can't handle my sensuality, then you don't deserve any other thing that comes from me because it essentially emanates from the same source. ~ Lebo Grand

I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice. ~ Nicole Richie

Truth was like an exploding star: violent, glitteringly beautiful. Now that I had seen it, felt it, it was impossible to settle for anything less. ~ Marie Rutkoski

How to earn a viable standard of living while giving vent to their desire to perform creative activities is the quintessential challenge for modern humans. Some people settle for jobs filled with drudgery and in their free time immerse themselves in hobbies that provide them with personal happiness. Other people prefer to find work that makes them happy, even if this occupation requires them to live a more modest standard of living. The greater their impulse is for curiosity and creativity, the less likely that a person will exchange personal happiness for economic security. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life. ~ Hal Elrod

I'd be alone the rest of my life before I'd settle for less than a man that flat out adored me. ~ R.K. Lilley

Don't give up, don't loose hope, don't settle for less and keep finding answers. Better days ahead. Get out of those mess! Get those things out of your head! ~ Adedayo Olabamiji

Learn to live with high standards for yourself. Don't live for anything less than you deserve. This is your life and you should be living it as such. Live your best life don't settle. ~ Avina Celeste

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal? ~ Runoko Rashidi

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live. ~ Lacey Mosley

The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships. ~ Brian Tracy

As if I'd settle for anything less than making you completely mine, as soon as possible. ~ Jeaniene Frost

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