Not Good Enough Quotes - Page 6

• 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, Walks

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• We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Pie

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• Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. ​And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.

  Ruth Davidson

  Friday, Real, Lying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Literature

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• I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.

  T.I.

  Police, Looks, Hopeless

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

  Bernie Sanders

  Years, Two, Hey

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.

  Farrah Gray

  Smart, Legs, Pants

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• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  Barbara Boxer

  Past, Thinking, Rights

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• Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Beautiful, Hurt

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• Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

  Gerard Way

  Love You, Good Love, Heart

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Good Enough, Enough

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.88, Ultramarine Publishing

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• I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

  Stephen Leacock

  Facts, Good Enough, Enough

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

  Calum Hood

  Being Yourself, Matter, Just Live

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• 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, Finals, World

  "'A lot of art people hate Photoshop... bollocks to that'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2007.

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• 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

  Second Best, Good Enough, Enough

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• We`ve got to stand with those people who are being attacked today, but at the same time, it`s not good enough to say that racism and xenophobia is bad. We`ve got to reach those people today who are so angry, who are so hateful and say, yes, you have a right to be angry, don`t take it out on the Muslims. Work with us to create an agenda and political movement that will make your life better, not just other people`s life worse.

  Bernie Sanders

  Xenophobia, Racism, People

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• Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

  Benji Madden

  Smart, Like You, Feels

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• 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, Flying, Rumor

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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

  Stuff, I Can, Good Enough

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• 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, Upset

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• I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?

  Jon Anderson

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to... in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?

  Mari Boine

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.

  Louise Hay

  Vocabulary, Forever, Should

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• Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told that they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

  Miranda Kerr

  Insecure, Loving Yourself, Practice

  "Miranda Kerr: 'Models Are Some of The Most Insecure People I've Met'". Interview with Katie Connor, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 1, 2013.

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• I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Tired, Shopping, Ipods

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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