Good Enough Quotes - Page 25

• I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

  Andre Gide

  Vices, Virtue, Share

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• 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

  Needs, Wells, Within You

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.52, Random House

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• Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

  Michael Jackson

  Not Good Enough, Lasts, Wells

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• To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Pain, Betrayal

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• In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

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• All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.

  Al Gore

  Positive, Smart, People

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• 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

  Loss, Sculpture, Opinion

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.143, Penguin

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• I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

  Danielle Steel

  Men, Needs, Settling

  Danielle Steel (2012). “Danielle Steel: 44 Charles Street & Malice: Ebook bundle”, p.58, Random House

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• Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Nice, Drs

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.59, Penguin

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• You're good enough, Jacob.

  Melina Marchetta

  Enough, Jacob

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

  Nick Vujicic

  Lying, Thinking, Not Good Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.

  Candace Bushnell

  Winning, Men, Creating

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• If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Bed, Enough, Ifs

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2011). “Notorious Pleasures: Number 2 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Littles, Talent, Discouraging

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “Wild Mountain Thyme”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Sacrifice

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• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Giving, Max, Ashes

  Teresa Medeiros (2011). “The Pleasure of Your Kiss”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Not Good Enough, Feelings, Deep Feeling

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1309, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.

  Tana French

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Fearless

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• A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Thinking, Yale

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.2, Kensington Books

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• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pride, Intelligent, Peaceful

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

  Brené Brown

  Moving, Thinking, Never Good Enough

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• If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Firsts, First Time

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Time, People, Not Good Enough

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