Not Good Enough famous quotes

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
-- Alain de Botton

#Jobs #Work #Not Good Enough

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
-- Amy Grant

#Choices #Not Good Enough #Arena

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.
-- Archie Griffin

#Not Good Enough #Determined #Heard

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Time #Not Good Enough #Humanity

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Not Good Enough #Feels #Kinship

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
-- Bernadette Devlin

#Interesting #Not Good Enough #Saint

Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.
-- Bob Lefsetz

#Giving Up #Mad #Not Good Enough

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
-- Brené Brown

#Powerful #Not Good Enough #Emotion

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
-- Bryan Robson

#Drinking #Player #Not Good Enough

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.
-- Cam Gigandet

#Letting Go #Not Good Enough #Soap

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.
-- Chris Brogan

#Thinking #Not Good Enough #Important

Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
-- Chris Klein

#Smart #Opportunity #Not Good Enough

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.
-- Daisy Donovan

#Children #Clever #Not Good Enough

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
-- Danielle Steel

#People #Not Good Enough #Feelings

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
-- Dee Dee Ramone

#Rap #Not Good Enough #Trying

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani

#Expectations #Not Good Enough #Deadline

When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.
-- Don Shula

#Football #Not Good Enough #Good Enough

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
-- Don Shula

#Sports #Loss #Not Good Enough

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
-- Edward Felten

#Two #Not Good Enough #Way

We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that’s not a life. That’s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,
-- Elbert Guillory

#Government #People #Not Good Enough

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell

#Not Good Enough #Feelings #Deep Feeling

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
-- Eric Weiner

#Writing #Islands #Not Good Enough

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Rights #People #Not Good Enough

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Football #Long #Not Good Enough

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
-- Gary Oldman

#Not Good Enough #Acting #Actors

If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?
-- Gary Yourofsky

#Eye #Not Good Enough #Stomach

It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
-- Genevieve Bell

#Technology #People #Not Good Enough

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Not Good Enough #Revolution #Moments

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
-- George Polya

#Philosophy #Not Good Enough #Physics

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
-- George Wald

#Mean #Giving #Not Good Enough

Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.
-- Graham Cooke

#Not Good Enough #Perception #Walks

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!
-- Greg Behrendt

#Not Good Enough #Good Enough #Enough

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.
-- Harriet Martineau

#Education #Country #Not Good Enough

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
-- J. Cole

#Thinking #Not Good Enough #Pressure

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?
-- James Altucher

#Blessed #Order #Not Good Enough

I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.
-- Jennifer Beals

#People #Not Good Enough #Painful

People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.
-- Joel Osteen

#Mistake #People #Not Good Enough

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
-- John Galsworthy

#Time #People #Not Good Enough

It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.
-- John Robert Seeley

#Rejection #Not Good Enough #Feelings

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
-- Jonathan Ive

#Not Good Enough #Stuff #Pushing

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
-- Jonathan Ive

#Not Good Enough #Design #Good Enough

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

#Mean #Not Good Enough #Good Enough

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
-- Kevin Bacon

#Not Good Enough #Criticism #Important

Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it...
-- Lauren Mackler

#Self #Not Good Enough #Childhood

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
-- Leslie Caron

#Regret #Not Good Enough #Scripts

Good is not good enough when better is expected
-- Lou Lamoriello

#Not Good Enough #Good Enough #Enough

Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.
-- Luis Tiant

#Heart #Perfect #Not Good Enough

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.
-- Lynsay Sands

#Not Good Enough #Good Enough #Enough

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
-- Mackenzie Astin

#Believe #Not Good Enough #Easy

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.
-- Michael Bassey

#Thinking #Not Good Enough #Relax

It is not good enough to get your horse to do what you want. It is far better to cause your horse to want to do it.
-- Monty Roberts

#Horse #Not Good Enough #Want

When we don't hear anything from God we just don't know exactly what He is planning and we come to different conclusions that maybe He has forgotten me, maybe He doesn't hear my prayers, maybe I'm not good enough.
-- Nick Vujicic

#Prayer #Not Good Enough #Different

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
-- Ninette de Valois

#Not Good Enough #Enough #Good Enough

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

#Justice #People #Not Good Enough

Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.
-- Pauline Kael

#Children #Simple #Not Good Enough

It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.
-- Perry Miller

#Home #Men #Not Good Enough

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

#Growing Up #People #Not Good Enough

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

#Not Good Enough #Rejected #Ridicule

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
-- Ritchie Blackmore

#Discipline #Not Good Enough #Musician

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
-- Russell Crowe

#Children #Daddy #Not Good Enough

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.
-- Sally Field

#Being Yourself #Not Good Enough #Want

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
-- Shawn Ashmore

#Careers #Not Good Enough #Able

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.
-- Shunryu Suzuki

#Pain #Practice #Not Good Enough

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
-- Stan Wawrinka

#Winning #Guy #Not Good Enough

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
-- Stephen Sondheim

#Writing #Greed #Not Good Enough

Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.
-- Steven Gerrard

#Disappointment #Not Good Enough #Enough

If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.
-- Thomas G. Stemberg

#Educational #Shoes #Not Good Enough

When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.
-- Toni Gonzaga

#People #Not Good Enough #Mind

Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.
-- Toni Morrison

#Commitment #Justice #Not Good Enough

People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just being me - if that's not good enough for you, tell me what is. Usually people don't have an answer.
-- Travie McCoy

#People #Not Good Enough #The End Of The Day

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
-- Walt Kelly

#Reality #Not Good Enough #Done

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
-- Will Champion

#Not Good Enough #Stuff #Enough

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
-- Wolf Blitzer

#School #Not Good Enough #Flying

There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I'm not good enough and that I don't deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required. The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.
-- Aja Naomi King

#Believe #Opportunity #Not Good Enough

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
-- Alex O'Loughlin

#Writing #Not Good Enough #Levels

No matter what I do, all people talk about is production design, whether it's not good enough or it is good enough. And I'm thinking: This is because my content makes people uncomfortable. It's a way for people to not talk about the content.
-- Anna Biller

#Thinking #People #Not Good Enough

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.
-- Calum Hood

#Being Yourself #Not Good Enough #Matter

An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
-- David J. Anderson

#Not Good Enough #Improvement #Catalyst

Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something.
-- Idris Khan

#Thinking #Not Good Enough #Finals

I've had a tremendous career and I get more phone calls from people who've been on 'X Factor' asking how they get on the ships. The ships are a very lucrative job for any singer and I would advise any singer to go and work on them and try it for a while. If you are not good enough, you will not get on.
-- Jane McDonald

#People #Not Good Enough #Trying

There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our lives, we feel like we're not good enough, but we have to step back and realize that we are.
-- Jussie Smollett

#Not Good Enough #Earth #Steps

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

#Not Good Enough #Good Enough #Enough

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Children #Book #Not Good Enough

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Children #Book #Not 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.
-- Steve Howey

#Not Good Enough #Second Best #Good Enough

We all suffer from anxiety at one stage or another, we all worry, and we all feel like we're not good enough - especially in our society where we're under pressure from social media. It's hugely important now to discuss and be open about how we're feeling.
-- The Last Skeptik

#Worry #Not Good Enough #Anxiety

I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the same. "Better" is not good enough - it's not. Especially when "better" still means my life is at risk.
-- Titus Kaphar

#Mean #People #Not Good Enough

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.
-- Bradford Winters

#Leadership #Not Good Enough #Stills

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.
-- Mark Donohue

#Power #Car #Not Good Enough

Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.
-- Anita Sarkeesian

#Smart #Not Good Enough #Brain

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.
-- Michael Longley

#Hard Work #Years #Not Good Enough

Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.
-- Brendon Burchard

#Dream #Heart #Not Good Enough

America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do that at work, and they only have two weeks' maternity leave. I'm very lucky that I get to pick and choose. And it helps that all my agents are women, and very protective of me. But for other working mothers here, support from their employers is not good enough. It shouldn't even be an issue. It's really important to be able to raise your kid without a fear of losing your job.
-- Robyn Lawley

#Mother #Kids #Not Good Enough

It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.
-- Rosario Castellanos

#Not Good Enough #Answers #Who We Are

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.
-- Gale Anne Hurd

#Not Good Enough #Vision #Genius

Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?
-- James Corden

#Not Good Enough #World #Want