Settling Quotes

Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.

~ Tana French

A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.

~ Shannon L. Alder

gratitudenoun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required.

~ Shannon L. Alder

How responsible are you with what you are given? Are you the per- son who, when asked to do a job, can be counted on to get it done and get it done right? Don’t settle for just a field goal in life. Make the push for the last six inches and score a touchdown. Faithfulness, hard work, and dedication will gain the trust of others and take you further down the field.

~ Jake Byrne

Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

~ Thomas Merton

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need.

~ Stephan Labossiere

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Sometimes, it is easier for people to believe lies then deal with the uncomfortableness of their own fear of action. These type of people feel uncomfortable unless everyone is the same or God presents them with what is easy and obvious. It is a life long coping mechanism for the greatest fear of all--regret.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

~ Haruki Murakami

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

~ Nityananda Das

There are settling girls, and there are unsettling girls. The ones who seem to have it in them to be flyers are the ones who want to snuggle into settling. The ones who look as settled as old housedogs want to twist their way into flying. Necessarily, you must be defensive about being a settling sort of girl.

~ Amruta Patil

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.

~ Roland Merullo

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

~ Katherine Reay

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

~ Shannon L. Alder