Top 100 Is Good Enough Quotes
#1. When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
Kevin Spacey
#2. God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
Ernest Holmes
#3. Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.
Rebecca Wells
#4. I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me
Groucho Marx
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt
#9. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
Bobby Orr
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.
Jane Fonda
#15. Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#16. A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman ...
Mary Astell
#17. 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
#18. It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.
Robin Zander
#19. 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
#20. What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.
Alan Cohen
#21. What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
Carl R. Rogers
#22. Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.
Lalita Tademy
#23. I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.
Britt Daniel
#24. I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
Stephen Greenblatt
#25. If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
Al Yankovic
#26. 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
#27. At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.
Lori Deschene
#28. If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
David Remnick
#29. Perfectionists often position themselves on the sidelines, from which they point out that nothing is good enough.
Rebecca Solnit
#30. 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
#31. But you must remember that they are Viennese and nobody is good enough for the Viennese.
Daisy Goodwin
#32. The important thing is to not assume that good is good enough, because even good things can always, always find a way to get better.
David Sturt
#33. People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.
Manisha Koirala
#34. O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
Peter S. Beagle
#37. I am not a perfectionist ... if you believe that your best is good enough, you will find happiness. The unknown can be exciting and full of opportunity but you have to be involved and you have to be able to evolve.
Alice Bag
#38. The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
Joanne Greenberg
#39. In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
Les Baxter
#40. My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
A.P. Herbert
#41. Never be picky and choosy about means of escaping disembowelment, or waste your time trying to find reasons for the persecution you're a victim of. Escape is good enough for the wise.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#42. Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this ... only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly
#43. That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
Boris Johnson
#44. But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling weak, not sure my work is good enough, not sure if the people who are clapping would really like me if they got to know me (page 2)
Donald Miller
#45. Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw
#46. I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.
Charlie Daniels
#48. This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
William Empson
#49. For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.
Jeff Jarrett
#51. The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
Theodore Roosevelt
#52. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
John Steinbeck
#53. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
#55. Neither civilized reason nor Christian love would cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated; only the fear of your power to retaliate would cause them to do that, or to seem to do it, which was (and is) good enough.
James Baldwin
#56. Monty blinked. "On what charge, sir?" "On the charge of being a pain in my ass," Burke growled. "And right now, that is good enough for an overnight stay in our facility.
Anne Bishop
#57. Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.
James Salter
#58. This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.
Jane Fonda
#59. I've got class. I am such a discriminating person that no one is good enough for me. My sister has zero class. She is indiscriminately happy.
George Pransky
#60. I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
Barbara Mandrell
#61. What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.
Lupita Nyong'o
#62. Fat people know the consequences of eating, but if the food is good enough, they just don't care.
Jim Gaffigan
#63. If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
Eddie Griffin
#64. For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
Edward Abbey
#65. If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.
Herman Cain
#66. Now and then some one says that the religion of his father and mother is good enough for him, and wonders why anybody should desire a better. Surely we are not bound to follow our parents in religion any more than in politics, science or art.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#67. 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
#68. Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world's problems
Sunday Adelaja
#69. If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.
Paul Broun
#70. The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us
just as we are.
Chieko N. Okazaki
#71. No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
#72. The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.
Wallace D. Wattles
#73. I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.
Carlos Gonzalez
#74. At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
Truman Capote
#75. It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?
Henrietta C. Mears
#77. The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
Adrienne Rich
#78. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Abraham Lincoln
#79. 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
#80. Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
Jay Samit
#81. And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.
Karen Hesse
#82. I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.
Sally Pearson
#83. Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
Benjamin Whichcote
#84. Stop thinking that nobody is "good enough".
Auliq Ice
#85. I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.
Andre Leon Talley
#86. 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
#87. The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
Samuel Johnson
#89. Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
Sadie Frost
#90. As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
A.P. Herbert
#91. Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
Judith Martin
#92. God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
Vance Havner
#93. If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
Che Guevara
#94. Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
O. Henry
#96. How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.
Peter Adejimi
#97. Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
... beer is good enough for me.
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
#98. He still didn't think I was good enough for you."
"No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.
Nicholas Sparks
#99. I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
Evan Hunter
#100. My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
Brian O'Driscoll