Being Good Enough Quotes:

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Art, Block, Finishing, Being Good Enough, Not Being Good Enough

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

- Seth Godin

topic: Long, Why Not, Mediocrity, Being Good Enough

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Being Yourself, Views, People, Being Accepted, Being Good Enough

Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Daughter, Children, Father, Contending, Being Good Enough

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Fear, Rejection, Trying, Fear Of Rejection, Being Good Enough

I have a couple of what I call "buttons" - fears or anxieties that when tweaked can cause me to be vulnerable. Fear of failure, not being good enough, and abandonment are my main buttons. However, they have diminished greatly over the years as I have really confronted those fears in order to work through them.

- Nikki DeLoach

topic: Couple, Years, Order, Being Good Enough, Not Being Good Enough

We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.

- Richard Paul Evans

source: Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

topic: Growing Up, Children, Believe, Parents Divorce, False Gods

Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Determination, Self Esteem, Emotional, Drive And Determination, Being Good Enough

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

- Steve Spurrier

topic: Past, Trying, Way, Being Good Enough, Not Being Good Enough

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

- Mira Sorvino

topic: Self Esteem, Night, Understanding, Being Good Enough, Not Being Good Enough

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is the rest is semi-history.

- Kurt Fuller

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Way, Scripts, Good Enough, Being Good Enough, Minefields

No one ever delighted a customer by being 'good enough'.

- Ron Kaufman

topic: Service Culture, Good Enough, Be Good, Being Good Enough

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

- Kim Basinger

topic: Design, Parent, Insecurity, Being Good Enough, Not Being Good Enough

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

- Wallace Stegner

source: Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

topic: Attention, Pay, Emotion, Being Good Enough

Being good enough never is.

- Debbi Fields

topic: Self Improvement, Good Enough, Be Good, Being Good Enough

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

- Seth Godin

source: Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Night, Good Enough, Settling, Being Good Enough