We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
For what level of mediocrity will you settle?
I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
Never settle for anything less than you want.
It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.
Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.
You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.
Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.
Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.