Not Good Enough Quotes

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Good, Yourself

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
Nina Simone

Good, Hurt, Angry

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.
Patti LaBelle

Good, Great, Heart

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
Elle Macpherson

Good, Women, Beautiful

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

Good, Person, Enough

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

Good, Enough, Else

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

Good, Best, Bad

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
Marilyn Manson

Success, Good, Friends

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

Good, Important, Human

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

Good, Movies, Children

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Good, Attitude, Enough

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

Good, Enough, Either

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

Good, Great, Enough

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

Good, Enough, Reckoning

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

Good, Reality, Done

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

Good, Enough, Learned

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

Good, Bad, Important

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
Michael McCaul

Good, Children, 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

Good, Help, Two

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

Good, Enough, Discipline

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

Good, Best, Past

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

Music, Time, Good

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

Good, Future, Care

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

Life, Good, Enough

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

Good, Regret, Enough

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Michael Korda

Good, Attitude, Enough

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

Love, Music, Good

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

Good, Enough, Playing

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

Time, Good, Future

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.
Brendan Coyle

Age, Good, Great

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