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Welcome to these Settling Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
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Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
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
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anais Nin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes
can be settled by using force,
then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization
and our best hope of establishing a world order.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
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