Good Enough Quotes - Page 17

• I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Law

  "They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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• Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.

  Tim Tebow

  Adversity, People, Not Good Enough

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• And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me.

  Erin McKean

  Believe, People, Car

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• If you aren’t
  really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Enemy, Careful, Ifs

  Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.183, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

  Marcel Proust

  Yesterday, Giving, House

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, California, Endurance

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin

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

  Ray Lewis

  Enough, Comfortable

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2017

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• Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Not Good Enough, Greed

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• I think this..."perfectionist gene" that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for "good enough." You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that. They're just trying to figure out what's the opening and how they can seize it. They're not thinking about, Oh my gosh, I'm not perfect, my hair's not perfect today, I wore the wrong shoes. No.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Thinking, Hair

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• We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Not Good Enough, Half, Educate

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• 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

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• If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

  Ted Yoho

  Enough, Ifs

  "Ted Yoho: Upset winner isn't horsing around". Interview with Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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

  Jenny Holzer

  Artist, Honest, Never Good Enough

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• Quick enough, if good enough.

  St. Jerome

  Haste, Enough, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Epistle. LXVI. Par. 9, 1922.

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• My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

  Zendaya

  Light, Hair, Color

  Zendaya @Zendaya, twitter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

  Michael Fassbender

  Goal, Acting, Income

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

  Steven Furtick

  People, Behinds, Greater

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• If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Eye, Not Good Enough, Stomach

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• I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

  Christina Ricci

  Mean, Thinking, Musical

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• Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

  Dax Shepard

  Successful, Funny Things, People

  "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.

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• What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Self, Impossible, I Have Learned

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• Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

  Teresa Wright

  Running, Children, Home

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• If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Enough, Ifs

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• Confidence sells -- people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

  Simon Black

  Believe, People, Acting

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