Gabrielle Roth
Dancer
"You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts."
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Settling
205 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine."
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"Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle."
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"Love what you do...Don't settle"
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"Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels."
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"If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand."
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"I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain."
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"The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore."
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"For what level of mediocrity will you settle?"
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"I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours."
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"Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away."
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"There's a big difference between not settling and not starting."
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"We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for."
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"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."
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"Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy"
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"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
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"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."
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"Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave."
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"Healing cannot be done by settling a score."
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"The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre."
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