1.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
J. Cole
I place high expectations on myself. I'm never happy with the results until I have reached an ideal standard. My craving for perfection is unending.
2.
If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?
Gary Yourofsky
If it's not palatable to your eyes, why is it satisfactory to your taste buds?
3.
Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.
Graham Cooke
4.
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.
Toni Morrison
5.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
George Bernard Shaw
6.
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
7.
Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.
Tim Tebow
8.
It is not good enough to get your horse to do what you want. It is far better to cause your horse to want to do it.
Monty Roberts
9.
It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
Genevieve Bell
10.
Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.
Calum Hood
11.
No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.
Mark Donohue
12.
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
Ashley Montagu
13.
It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.
Rosario Castellanos
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When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.
Toni Gonzaga
15.
Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.
Iyanla Vanzant
16.
People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.
Joel Osteen
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Brené Brown
18.
There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our lives, we feel like we're not good enough, but we have to step back and realize that we are.
Jussie Smollett
19.
Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.
Steven Gerrard
20.
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
21.
It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.
Nick Vujicic
22.
We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.
Elbert Guillory
23.
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
24.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Jawaharlal Nehru
25.
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
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
George Bernard Shaw
27.
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
28.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
George Bernard Shaw
29.
I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
Bernadette Devlin
30.
Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.
Anita Sarkeesian
31.
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
32.
Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.
Pete Sampras
33.
Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.
Michael Jackson
34.
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.
35.
If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel isolated, not good enough, defined by the labels they wear rather than the identity they have in Christ. The love of Christ tells us that we're accepted; that we belong.
Sheila Walsh
36.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
John Galsworthy
37.
.. 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
38.
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
39.
Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!
T. B. Joshua
40.
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
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Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.
Lauren Mackler
44.
In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov
45.
The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.
Archie Griffin
46.
Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.
Benji Madden
47.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
Amy Grant
48.
I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
Stan Wawrinka
49.
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
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
Stephen Sondheim