Iman Quotes

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

You are what you settle for.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

Good enough never is.

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.

I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.