Good Enough For You Quotes

#1. Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?

Alice Munro

#2. I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'

Lindsay Duncan

#3. I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'

Harvey Pekar

#4. Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?

James Corden

#5. You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

Bryant McGill

#6. Damn you!" Dagenham raged, "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good." "Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live or die together.

Alfred Bester

#7. They're not going to come between us, though, because I'm crazy about you and have been for a long time."
"That's not good enough for me. Although, being crazy for me is a good start. It's just not enough for me since I happen to love you.

Lynetta Halat

#8. I want you to tell me why you have a pair of broken angel wings on your shoulder. I want you to tell me why you cut your wrists and I want to know why and how you play and sing the way you do, but most of all I want you to tell me what I need to do to be a good enough man for you.

Christine Zolendz

#9. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

Rajneesh

#10. Maybe my pussy wasn't good enough for him. You know what? Fuck you, you slutty, obnoxious, turd. My pussy is prime pussy.

K.M. Golland

#11. Let me soap you," he murmured.
"Thank you for your good intentions," she said, "but my two hands are quite enough."
"Even if it's just your back," the foreigner begged.
"That would be silly," she said. "People never soap their backs.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. While everyone cannot set aside enough money for generations to come, there is one thing, you can pass on, even if you have no money: a good name.

Idowu Koyenikan

#13. If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

Jon Foreman

#14. At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

Karen Salmansohn

#15. You got any experience? (Carlos)
I'm former army intelligence, Special Forces, on contract to the U.S. government now for national security. That good enough for you, amigo? (Stoner)
It'll do. (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

John Lloyd

#17. She isn't the kind of girl that makes you wonder why she doesn't have someone, you just know that the kind of guy who is good enough for her is rare, and she projects the kind of strength that says she is perfectly happy to wait till he shows up.

Stacey Ballis

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

Sally Field

#19. You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

Lee Child

#20. Don't worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that's who's good enough for you.

Amy Lane

#21. I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

Jennifer Niven

#22. A very good senior programmer (who might get paid $200,000) gets paid about the same as a great programmer, who delivers $5 million worth of value for the same price. That's enough of a difference to build an entire company's profit around. Do it with ten programmers and you're rich.

Seth Godin

#23. I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?

Meg Rosoff

#24. I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

Lucy Lawless

#25. You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

Chris Rock

#26. You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

Seth Godin

#27. There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#28. You told me never to be in a hurry to fail. That the end result should be strong enough to carry anything I did forward, not just good enough to hold it together for the time being.

Melissa Foster

#29. He'd never understood the need to go around stewing on why things turned out the way they did. You are what you are and you do what you do, and that was good enough for Ove.

Fredrik Backman

#30. I was worth it and you lost me. I was good enough but you took me for granted. your loss.

R H Sin

#31. The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

Niall Williams

#32. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.

Ricky Gervais

#33. I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

Juliet Marillier

#34. And if all that wasn't enough, you're a good fucking human being, and I'm not losing you to whatever bullshit lies your head is telling you. I know you don't have any family, so I'm officially stepping in and stepping up. I will fight for you until you can fight for yourself. You hear me? The

Laura Kaye

#35. Like Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is within," which seems, once and for all, to bust wide open the daft afterlife view of heaven as some kind of Lando Calrissian cloud kingdom that you can get into like Alton Towers if you acquire enough good-boy tokens.

Russell Brand

#36. ."I shouldn't want you. I'm not good enough for you. I know it and you know it. But that doesn't stop me from wanting you. Just being near you... You bring me peace, beauty," he says in a soft unwavering tone, briefly resting his forehead against mine.

Chantal Fernando

#37. Those that are meant to be in your life won't degrade you, judge you, or talk about you, because they're too busy loving you and uplifting you. If you put your faith in fickle opinions you'll never be good enough. Focus on God's truth and purpose for your life and you'll find your perfect self

Trent Shelton

#38. She couldn't hide from everyone for the rest of her life ... Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.

Ann Brashares

#39. You're a damn dog," Adam finally snapped.
"If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result

Suzanne Enoch

#40. Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.

Cassandra Clare

#41. Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

Gwenno

#42. The minute you think you're good enough for God, God says, 'I'm not interested in people who are good enough for me.' And the minute you think you're too bad for God, God says, 'It's you I've come for.

N. T. Wright

#43. think you're the most beautiful girl I've ever met. I think no one will ever be good enough for you, least of all me, but all I want to do right now is kiss you. Well, that's not all I want to do. But it's a start.

Melanie Harlow

#44. There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Gal Gadot

#45. It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.

Aldous Huxley

#46. I know you don't think he's good enough for me, but then you don't think any man is good enough for me.

Lorraine Heath

#47. The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you've got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

Vironika Tugaleva

#48. Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start - it's how great you end up.

Guy Kawasaki

#49. You'll never get over Ilan. And that will one day horrify you. But soon enough you'll settle on a replacement object for all that love of yours, which does you about as much good as a life jacket in a train wreck.

Rivka Galchen

#50. Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.

Mark Fuhrman

#51. You. Are. Mine ... I don't care how wrong we are for each other. I don't care that I'll never be good enough for you or that we're risking everything to be together. Your mother would never approve. Whatever. Fuck it all. You are fucking mine. And I'm yours. And we belong together.

Linda Kage

#52. The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.

Joseph P. Moran

#53. People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

Tom Hollander

#54. You're not weird, are you? (Jack)
Not particularly, no. (Syd)
Well, good. I got enough weirdness for the lot of us. Don't want to share it. (Jack)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#55. When we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

J. Reuben Clark

#56. I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

Matt Chandler

#57. As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

Karine Vanasse

#58. I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

#59. If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

Richard Branson

#60. It is not enough to take good decisions and make good choices. It is necessary to take heed and comply with whatever you plan and that can only happen by the influence of the Lord God, the giver of your dreams.

Israelmore Ayivor

#61. There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

Marianne Williamson

#62. Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you're doing. Be relentless and never give up.

Troy Little

#63. Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

Mitch Albom

#64. I also once heard that if you have enough good ideas for three or four great novels, then what you probably have is actually enough ideas for one good one. That has stayed with me.

Darren White

#65. I placed my hands on his chest and took a step away. "Sometimes I really don't like you."
"Key word to what you just said is sometimes, meaning not all the time, meaning most of the time you like me, and that's good enough for me.

Joddie Zeng

#66. Lovers beware and take good head to whom
You give your love, for whom you suffer pain.
I tell you there are few enough among them
To be trusted to give true love back again

Robert Henryson

#67. It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?

Ted Danson

#68. You do trust him, though, Giddon?"
"Holt, who is stealing your sculptures and is of questionable mental health?"
"Yes."
"I trusted him five minutes ago. Now I'm at a bit of a loss."
"Your opinion five minutes ago is good enough for me.

Kristin Cashore

#69. If it is good enough for me, it couldn't be that bad for you, but if it is bad for me, it's more likely to be the same for you, Just be respectful and authentic and you'll make it just fine as you wish and that will pay you.

Auliq Ice

#70. No matter how hard you try, it's just never good enough for those that want to see you fall.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#71. I can't lose you! I love you! I just want to be good enough for you!

Lucian Bane

#72. Keep encouraging yourself that you are good enough as a workman of God created for every good work one earth prepared for you before the world begun.

Israelmore Ayivor

#73. You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

Haile Gebrselassie

#74. Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Gail Sheehy

#75. Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.

Lalita Tademy

#76. Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Al Alvarez

#77. The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

Michael Bassey

#78. In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.

Philippe Falardeau

#79. You tell me your fantasies, and I will make everything we do so good for you, you won't be able to get enough

Jasmine Haynes

#80. To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

David Rees

#81. Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Augustus William Hare

#82. But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

#83. I never thought anyone would be good enough for her, but God, you're like an all-American hero,

Katie Reus

#84. If someone tells you that you're not good enough, fuck them. Seriously, fuck them. Who the fuck has the right to tell you what you're good enough for?

Trisha Paytas

#85. Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It wasn't good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?

Rainbow Rowell

#86. But you must remember that they are Viennese and nobody is good enough for the Viennese.

Daisy Goodwin

#87. How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still not be allowed to fall in love or be honest? Surely not everything had to wait for university and a good job. Passion and truth had to trump even those things.

Zen Cho

#88. I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

Barbara Corcoran

#89. It is popularly known that it takes one thousand hours to master something, anything. But what you and I are looking for is not the high end mastery but we just want to be good at it, enough to see us through our daily lives. This is where the 21 day rule comes in.

Angelina Talpa

#90. You need a good fantasy to boost arousal enough to climax ... thinking about what you should make for dinner tomorrow during sex is not going to do it.

Gail Saltz

#91. Just be you ... 'cause that's good enough for me!

Cory Monteith

#92. I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Mick Jagger

#93. I told myself that was why, that I wasn't bringing you back because it hurt too much to lose you. That a lifetime without free will wasn't worth three more
days with you. That wasn't good enough. I had to do it for the right reasons, you know. For them, not for us.

Kelly Meding

#94. If you're not hated by many, you're not good enough yet, because God hates and always hated the majority for good reasons.

Daniel Marques

#95. Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you

Jennifer Donnelly

#96. People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just being me - if that's not good enough for you, tell me what is. Usually people don't have an answer.

Travie McCoy

#97. You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

Trey Gowdy

#98. Look, I didn't ask for any of this, but I'm here now. I get that it's dangerous. I get that I'm fat. I get that I'm about as far from prepared for this insanity as you can get. But I'll tell you something about me: I don't quit. So enough with the let's-scare-the-fat-girl routine, okay?

Bill Blais

#99. You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good enough for you and you must find a way to be fine with the delay because it is your whole life and the minute you really go missing is the minute you can no longer miss.

Catherine Lacey

#100. You have to have a good vocabulary to do magic. And you have to be able to think on your feet. And be brave enough to speak up. And have an ear for a solid turn of phrase. And you have to actually understand what you're saying - how the words translate into magic.

Rainbow Rowell