Good Enough Quotes

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

Normally as an actress you're constantly worried that people think you don't look good enough. It's just like an unnecessary stress that's just frustrating.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

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

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

Don't let doing enough be good enough.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

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

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

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.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

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

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

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

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.

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.'

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

It's such an old-fashioned attitude to make people feel like they're not good enough for your clothes. That's so negative and so old-fashioned and wrong.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.

I don't count my blessings, because just being alive is good enough for me.

Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

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.

If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is breathe?

No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.

You don't create or write to be successful

f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

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

So, I'm no longer holding myself hostage to less than what I deserve. It's an inward thing first. It's always an inward thing first.

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

If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.