Not Sufficient Quotes

#1. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

#2. Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#3. When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Confucius

#4. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Napoleon Hill

#5. The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Francis Quarles

#6. A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?

Sherwood Schwartz

#7. It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.

Ellen Key

#8. What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

A. Theodore Tuttle

#9. we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future

Kim S. Cameron

#10. To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Ernest Renan

#11. It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

Genghis Khan

#12. The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#13. Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)

Brian Kernighan

#14. The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today. I

Hugh Prather

#15. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

Austin O'Malley

#16. The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart, and pity are not sufficient.

Simone Weil

#17. For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

Tzvetan Todorov

#18. Is my understanding sufficient for this or not? If it is sufficient, I use it for the work as an instrument given by the universal nature. But if it is not sufficient, then either I retire from the work and give way to him who is able to do it better,

Marcus Aurelius

#19. Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else
will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.

Dalai Lama

#21. The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Mahalia Jackson

#22. A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

James Thurber

#23. Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

Gottlob Frege

#24. I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

Sharad Pawar

#25. However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

Wietse Venema

#26. He asks too much to whom God is not sufficient.

John Baillie

#27. It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

Georges Braque

#28. It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.

Thomas Piketty

#29. If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.

William T. Vollmann

#30. And about a thousand other things, he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the sense that words are not sufficient tools for him to build what's going on in his head as he stands before me.

Lauren DeStefano

#31. There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters

Lev Grossman

#32. correction of the individual is not sufficient to prevent relapse if we do not also, to the best of our ability, reform the social environment.

Enrico Ferri

#33. It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well.

Stephen Harper

#34. Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Robert Reich

#35. Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.

Paul Washer

#36. People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

#37. How devastated I am to say that I will not be present at your petite soiree on June 10th. Unfortunately, the exceptionally weak drinks you ordinarily serve at these occasions are not sufficient to dull my senses to your boyfriend's futile efforts to grope me in the hallway.

A.C. Kemp

#38. One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.

Dalai Lama

#39. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill

#40. When the right people advocate for your work, your success becomes more likely. Being good is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Skill is a prerequisite for creative success, but talent is only part of the equation. The rest is network.

Jeff Goins

#41. The stated good intentions of the various religions are not sufficient; we must implement them in daily life in society. Then we can know the real value of their teachings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#42. Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe
in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Robert A. Heinlein

#43. But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.

Victor Hugo

#44. The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

Samuel Johnson

#45. The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

Rudolf Arnheim

#46. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Voltaire

#47. If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

Seth

#48. I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

George Soros

#49. A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

Nathaniel Branden

#50. The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Goldwin Smith

#51. That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert."

Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child.

Elizabeth Wein

#52. To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

Victor Hugo

#53. No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

Rigoberta Menchu

#54. The Russian contribution to peace in Ukraine is not sufficient. [German Chancellor commenting on 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea]

Angela Merkel

#55. Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Scott

#56. The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Robert Delaunay

#57. Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#58. For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Clara Zetkin

#59. However the revelation of the knowledge of God in nature is not sufficient for salvation. Actually the revelation of God in nature only condemns the unconverted sinner.

Martin Murphy

#60. The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Michel Houellebecq

#61. To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

James Stephens

#62. The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Steven Brust

#63. For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

Lin Yutang

#64. Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Mencius

#65. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Francis Quarles

#66. Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

Arthur Phillips

#67. Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Marvin Olasky

#68. It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Julian Baggini

#69. I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.

Tommy Barnett

#70. We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

Dallin H. Oaks

#71. Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping ...

Benjamin Franklin

#72. You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Paul Brunton

#73. It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it.

Peter Sloterdijk

#74. A good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient without action

Howard Zinn

#75. If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?

Thomas Sowell

#76. And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.

Reginald Fessenden

#77. It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

Fanny Fern

#78. A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.

Joe Blow

#79. Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else.

Ramit Sethi

#80. Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.

Anthony Trollope

#81. The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

Coretta Scott King

#82. But, do not stay there. Spiritual adulthood has higher goals than "finding yourself." A reactive stage is a stage, not an identity. It is necessary, but not sufficient.

Henry Cloud

#83. When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#84. Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.

Daniel Kahneman

#85. Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

Mason Cooley

#86. The mere existence of sanctions is not sufficient to ensure compliance. If no attention is paid to supervision, there is a risk that sectors that resist the requirements will not comply with them or will comply less thoroughly than they should. Regular and thorough supervision enhances compliance.

International Monetary Fund

#87. Skillful pitching ... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?

Guy Kawasaki

#88. Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

Murray Rothbard

#89. The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

Aron Nimzowitsch

#90. Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.

Jerry Holkins

#91. Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient,

Pierre Cardin

#92. It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Ron Brackin

#93. We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

Dalai Lama

#94. If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Friedrich Hayek

#95. Instincts that worked in the ancestral environment were not sufficient in a world that regulated playground visits and allowed choices between tofu and pizza.

Graeme Simsion

#96. It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

Richard Summerbell

#97. And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Elias Hicks

#98. No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.

Neville Chamberlain

#99. A great school experience won't keep you from being remarkable, but it's usually not sufficient to guarantee that you will become so. There's something else at work here.

Seth Godin

#100. Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Plautus