Good Enough Quotes

• A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Squares

  Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12

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• Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

  Anthony Trollope

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 32

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• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Memories, Not Good Enough, Triviality

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• Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

  Kurt Masur

  Player, Speaks Out, People

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• 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

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

  Bryan Ferry

  Moments, Enough, Ferry

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  Candace Cameron

  Thinking, Heaven, Asking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Ninette de Valois

  Not Good Enough, Enough, Dies

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• The best is good enough for me.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Enough

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• I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

  Fred Perry

  Sports, Athlete, Tennis

  "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies" by Paul Fein, (p. 146), 2003.

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• I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

  Jason Patric

  Needs, Wanted, Ifs

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Memories, Liars

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

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Not Good Enough, Reckoning

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• 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

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• 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.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Voice, Structure

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• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Joy, Forever, Journalism

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• 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, Energy

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• 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, I Can

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

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Not Good Enough, Emotion

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

  Sally Field

  Agents, Said, Downsizing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Views, Political, Literature

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Good enough is never good enough.

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie

  Crafts, Never Good Enough, Enough

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1991). “A field guide to writing fiction”, Harpercollins

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• My stories are never quite good enough

  Anne Tyler

  Stories, Literature, Never Quit

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• That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

  Shannen Doherty

  Good Day, Enough, Knows

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