Top 100 It's Not Enough Quotes
#1. I'm sorry. For everything I did. For everything I didn't. I wish you were here. I know it's not enough, but I guess this is the closest I am going to get, to saving you.
Hannah Harrington
#2. Mr. Kino, you're not the type who would willingly do something wrong. I know that very well. But there are times in this world when it's not enough just not to do the wrong thing. Some people use that blank space as a kind of loophole.
Haruki Murakami
#3. It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.
Dalai Lama
#4. It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.
Larry Moss
#5. It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self
Neil Strauss
#6. It's not enough to be good. You have to be great.
Jeff Goins
#7. It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
Chuck Palahniuk
#8. It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
#9. It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.
Nido R. Qubein
#10. It's not enough to dream. It's not enough to try. It's not enough to set goals or climb ladders. It's not enough to value. The effort has to be based on practical realities that produce the result. Only then can we dream, set goals, and work to achieve them with confidence.
Stephen R. Covey
#11. My father used to say that it's not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they'll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Beautiful, Lili. I love that word, but it's not enough for you. Not nearly.
Kit Rocha
#13. In this life we are all fighting to be. Be something, be someone. Be rich, be happy, be successful. It's not enough to just BE.
Jennifer Calvert
#14. I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
George Carlin
#15. Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
George R R Martin
#16. It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.
Rinko Kawauchi
#18. It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.
Jose Ferreira
#19. It's not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society ("collectivity") to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.
Gary Valentine Lachman
#20. Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
Bill Press
#21. But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
Helen Simonson
#22. It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.
Mark McKinnon
#23. My father once told me that it's not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.
Henry Mosquera
#24. It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.
Jamie Redknapp
#25. I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.
Gayle Forman
#26. All this faux flattery. It's not enough to make me forget he's a dick. Admittedly, though, he's sort of a charismatic dick.
Kendare Blake
#27. The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.
Ryan Gosling
#28. France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.
Bernard Liautaud
#29. It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?
Orhan Pamuk
#30. It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.
Walter E. Jacobson
#31. Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.
Colin Powell
#32. I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
Beth Revis
#33. It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
Jerry Garcia
#34. It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.
Albert Schweitzer
#35. Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
Bob Dylan
#36. It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.
Sylvia Engdahl
#38. And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.
Michelle Obama
#39. I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied.
Brian Dawkins
#40. It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric Burns
#41. People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme ... If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.
Susan Cain
#43. It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.
Joss Whedon
#44. Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.
Robin Hobb
#45. It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Jesse Jackson
#46. It's not enough just to buy condoms, Cassidy; you have to use them.
Karen Marie Moning
#47. But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
John Abizaid
#48. We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.
Ernest Istook
#49. For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
Bob Iger
#50. It's easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it's not enough. It's also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.
Tom DeMarco
#51. It's not enough to say it's shocking, it's appalling, and to condemn only individual acts. We need to challenge and bring down the tribal honor-and-shame culture as codified in the Islamic religion.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#52. Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.
Max Lucado
#53. But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.
Cinda Williams Chima
#54. He looked at me for a moment longer, with unbearable longing. I love you, Alexa. No matter what happens tomorrow, or any day after that, I will always love you.
My eyes burned. I love you, too, Rylan.
But it's not enough, he said. I was too late.
Sara B. Larson
#55. But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world."
"Not my world."
I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.
Alex Flinn
#56. It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.
Rene Balcer
#57. We're Bonnie and Clyde! Wanted and unwanted. Caged and cornered. We're lost and we're alone. We're a big, tangled mess. We're a shot in the dark. We're two people who have nowhere else, no one else, and yet, suddenly that feels like enough for me! I'm sorry if it's not enough for you.
Amy Harmon
#58. As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.
Andy Stanley
#59. It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
Edward De Bono
#60. It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
Michael Musto
#61. It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
T. Harv Eker
#63. It's not enough that we voice good intentions. We must back them with action.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
Richard Gere
#65. It's not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas - you must initiate action.
Lorii Myers
#66. That's how selfish I am. It's not enough to watch you ride my dick. I want you to love it. Need it. Choose it.
Kit Rocha
#67. The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.
Michael Chertoff
#68. It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.
Paul Acampora
#69. I'm sorry," she said. "You're right. It's not enough. Not anymore.
Jay McLean
#70. My only challenge was to tell my truth, man ... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.
Lenny Bruce
#71. It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
Don DeLillo
#72. When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Dick Gregory
#73. It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.
Jeff Bridges
#74. It's not enough to say I'm sorry. You have to also mean it. It's the same with saying I'm single.
Demetri Martin
#75. You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.
Frederick Lenz
#76. It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick
#77. It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
Robert Capa
#78. We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
Assata Shakur
#79. If it doesn't break your heart
It isn't love
If it doesn't break your heart
It's not enough
Switchfoot
#80. Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.
Melody Robinette
#81. Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.
Brian O'Driscoll
#82. As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
John Hurt
#83. I thought it was just a longing for you, and that would be enough for both of us. I do long for you, but it's not enough and it's not all. Oh, this is where I want t be.
Nora Roberts
#84. It's not enough to love your product. You have to love your customers, too, every single one - those who complain the most are the ones who control the keys to your survival.
Ken Goldstein
#85. The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.
Russ Feingold
#86. It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
Sophie Kinsella
#87. It's not enough to use information for "something" - it needs to be immediate and important.
Timothy Ferriss
#88. It's not enough to keep winning seconds and thirds. At some point, Ted Cruz has actually won on. [Marco] Rubio's got to actually win a state.
Joy-Ann Reid
#89. It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
Robert Scoble
#90. We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
Barry Diller
#91. It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Tabare Vazquez
#93. It's not enough to be tolerant ... now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.
Erin Gruwell
#94. Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it ?
Sylvia Day
#95. It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.
David Ben-Gurion
#96. Because as soon as I leave after having you, I want you again. And then even when I have that, it's not enough. When I see another man look at you the way I do, I want to kill him. I want to swallow you. I want to consume you. I want to possess you. I want you.
Nina G. Jones
#97. It's not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it.
Mada Eliza Dalian
#98. If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt.
Andrew Schneider
#99. It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
Stella Adler
#100. Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out ... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
Marvin Hamlisch
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