Never Good Enough Quotes

• Good enough is never good enough.

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie

  Crafts, Good Enough, Enough

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1991). “A field guide to writing fiction”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Being Yourself, Reality, Believe In Yourself

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• One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

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• Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

  Asia Argento

  Mother, Queens, Mean

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

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• If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

  Jenny Holzer

  Artist, Honest, Ifs

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• Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Dream, Baby, Children

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• Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

  Vikram Chatwal

  People, Easy, Situation

  "Turban Cowboy hits town" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Thinking, Worry, Lord

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• I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Daughter, Mother, Perfection

  "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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• In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.

  Julie Andrews

  Hate, Writing, Thinking

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.

  Randy Couture

  Fighting, Mma, Way

  Randy Couture (2009). “Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Good Enough, Enough, Satisfied

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.

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• Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

  Shawn Johnson

  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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• I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.

  Josie Natori

  Settling, Decor, Good Enough

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• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Teamwork, Jobs, Book

  "Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck". www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.

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• Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

  Ralph Marston

  Powerful, Believe, Imagination

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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, Ifs

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