Best 128 quotes in «good enough quotes» category

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired.

My stories are never quite good enough

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

My thing is "You don't need anyone else to empower you; you can empower yourself." Whether it's a pep talk or putting on a good shade of lipstick, whatever you need to do, do it, but be yourself. You absolutely don't need someone else to tell you that you're good enough.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

No one ever delighted a customer by being 'good enough'.

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.

Quick enough, if good enough.

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.

She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

Steven Spielberg has this great quote: "Moviemaking is always about noise. There's so many voices that you've gotta listen to. But you've always got to pay attention to the one voice that's in your gut that always tells you it's still not good enough.

Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.