Good Enough Quotes - Page 36

• I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Doubt, Wish

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.207, Random House

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• Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Loneliness, Writing, Organization

  Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux, Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Full-length Play”, p.4, Dramatic Publishing

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• She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried a lot about whether she was good enough. It was surprising to see how relieved she seemed whenever I told her how amazing she was. I wanted her to feel strong and free. She was beautiful when she was free.

  Rob Sheffield

  Beautiful, Strong, College

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.67, Crown Archetype

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• Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

  Anthony Trollope

  Motivational, Thinking, Not Good Enough

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• No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Daughter, Son, Boys

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• I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Jobs, Worry, Able

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• .. 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

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• Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

  Richard Carlson

  Way, Enough, Cracked

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Cancer, Eye

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• 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

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• They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph

  William Faulkner

  Beach, Ocean, Names

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• Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

  Greg Behrendt

  Not Good Enough, Enough

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Success, Mother, Play

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• If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

  Jordan Belfort

  Inspirational, Success, People

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2013

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• The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?

  J. Budziszewski

  Ideas, Creating, Judging

  J. Budziszewski (2011). “What We Can't Not Know: A Guide”, p.12, Ignatius Press

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• Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• 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

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• We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, Smart, Blessing

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale". www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Never Good Enough, Enough, Satisfied

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.

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• I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

  Sam Trammell

  Math, League, Way

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• To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Parent, Feelings

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• The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced this is the best he can do, will also ask himself: "What in the world would make me act as my child acts at this moment? And if I felt forced to act this way, what would make me feel better about it?

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Feel Better, Parent

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• I'm tired of giving my best and not having it be good enough.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Tired, Giving, Be Good

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• Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

  Beth Revis

  Fear, Reason, Enough

  Beth Revis (2012). “A Million Suns: An Across the Universe Novel”, p.164, Penguin

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