Best 128 quotes in «good enough quotes» category

I’m going to fix everything.” “Ah, but darling, you don’t have to.

In many situations, we don’t need to make a perfect choice but just a good-enough choice.

In the past, my brain could only compute perfection or failure—nothing in between. So words like competent, acceptable, satisfactory, and good enough fell into the failure category. Even above average meant failure if I received an 88 out of 100 percent on an exam, I felt that I failed. The fact is most things in life are not absolutes and have components of both good and bad. I used to think in absolute terms a lot: all, every, or never. I would all of the food (that is, binge), and then I would restrict every meal and to never eat again. This type of thinking extended outside of the food arena as well: I had to get all of the answers right on a test; I had to be in every extracurricular activity […] The ‘if it’s not perfect, I quit’ approach to life is a treacherous way to live. […] I hadn’t established a baseline of competence: What gets the job done? What is good enough? Finding good enough takes trial and error. For those of us who are perfectionists, the error part of trial and error can stop us dead in our tracks. We would rather keep chasing perfection than risk possibly making a mistake. I was able to change my behavior only when the pain of perfectionism became greater than the pain of making an error. […] Today good enough means that I’m okay just the way I am. I play my position in the world. I catch the ball when it is thrown my way. I don’t always have to make the crowd go wild or get a standing ovation. It’s good enough to just catch the ball or even to do my best to catch it. Good enough means that I finally enjoy playing the game.

It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?

I wish you didn't first see me takin' my clothes off for drunks. I wish we didn't meet in a strip club. I wish you could've known me before I started with that kind of thing. Before I got like I am. Before I did all the things I wish I could take back. You know how people pay more money to buy furniture that's been roughed up a little? What do they call it? Things that have been distressed? That's because something that's seen a little wear is just more interesting than something brand-new that hasn't ever had a scuff on it.

Maybe my best isn't as good as someone else's, but for a lot of people, my best is enough. Most importantly, for me it's enough.

Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path.

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

What are you hiding? Is it something from others, or from yourself. Find your truth. The more you show up, the more you'll be found.

The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.

There are some people who through hurts do not feel they are good enough and this is a destroyer of their self-images. As a true believer of your dream, you need to see yourself as God sees you. God sees you as his own handiwork and that is pretty great to carry you through!

We all have moments when we think nobody sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebody else to get noticed. But somebody notices, Topher. Somebody sees. Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

When you feel insecure or like you don't measure up -remind yourself of how far you've come. And in the moment you'll realize you've climbed mountains and can overcome anything.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

At the end of the day, if you're old enough, you're good enough.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Being good enough never is.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

Every time I get scared or feel like I'm not going to be good enough at something, I say that mantra to myself. "Pretend you're good at it.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Good enough is never good enough.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Good is not good enough when better is expected

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

Good enough to tweet, not to say.

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

If it's good enough for beagles, it's good enough for me.

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.