Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela
“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
“Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.”
Angela Bassett
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”
Mandy Hale
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
Maureen Dowd
“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Make the most of the best and best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
Wendy Wasserstein
“Once you discover your happy place where you can be you, you will never settle for just any old space ever again.”
Christine E. Szymanski
“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
Thomas Merton
“There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.”
Matt Corby
“Don’t settle for less, know your value and always tell yourself you deserve better.”
Pertrice St Pierre
“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.”
Mia Hamm
“Don’t settle for good when you were destined to be great.”
Charles F Glassman
“If you settle for what you’ve got, you deserve what you get.”
Kathie Lee Gifford
“Never settle for the lesser ambition. The job, the title, the conventional loyalties and rewards. Stay focused on the larger ambition, which is making a difference in the world.”
David Ignatius
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.”’
Ashton Kutcher
“Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.”
Anthony Liccione
“Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.”
Talib Kweli
“Never settle. There is no need to rush.”
Mark Cuban
“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
John F. Kennedy
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
Sam Levenson
“Don’t settle for style. Succeed in substance.”
Wynton Marsalis
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Even if you have to walk fast for 30 mins, five days a week, by all means do so. Never make excuses to why you don’t have the time to work out. Your body deserves to enjoy the taste of a good health. Never settle for less.”
Edmond Mbiaka
“Who you are is what you settle for, you know?”
Janis Joplin
“Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you’ll find them.”
Danielle Steel
“Tearing up between what you deserve and what you settle for is a perpetual cause of unsettling pain.”
Nitya Prakash
“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”
John Assaraf
“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.”
Stuart Scott
“Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.”
Jillian Michaels
