Top 1200 Not Being Good Enough Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

No man is good enough to be another's master.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

When it comes to United, if you don't win everything, it's not good enough.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.

In the SAS, if you're not good enough, you're graded out of it.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

When I was with PSV Eindhoven in Holland, some people still thought Asian players weren't good enough to play in Europe. It's always good to rise to the challenge and prove them wrong. When I first came to United, I had to prove my ability again.

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.

For me, being in someone's good books is to keep your behavior good.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

My stories are never quite good enough.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

My stories are never quite good enough

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

I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications to conclude that probably this history was an invention of a later time.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

Some people are very good at being themselves and being very natural on screen or being very sexy or handsome or whatever. I like that, and I aspire towards that, but I don't know if I always make it. I work very hard.

It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

If I'm not the best D-lineman, it's not good enough for me.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

When dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they’ll never be good enough, and there’s something seriously wrong with that.

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.

'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

People often don't hydrate enough - they don't drink enough water. One will see marked improvement in their overall wellness, in their skin tone, even in their hair, if they hydrate enough.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.

In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.

Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

There is always enough room for good actors.

The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

Sometimes your best isn't good enough

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.

Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

Am I good enough to go to Heaven?

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.