I Quotes
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“It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.”
“It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.”
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man - 196 Indian Sutras (Aphorisms) That Constitute the Foundational Text of Raja Yoga
“It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.”
“It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.”
Source: Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”
“It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.”
“It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.”
“It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky.”
Source: The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
“It is not enough to just be in a relationship that is aimlessly moving forward, you must be aware of which direction the relationship is moving and be an active participant in the development, unfolding, and growth of the relationship.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.”
“It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.”
“It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.”
Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace
“It is not enough to know that you are called, it is also necessary to know how you will accomplish your calling”
“It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man's restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was 'no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved' (Acts 4:12), the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassable passable: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power.”
“It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“it is not enough to know what is right or wrong, it is also critically important to ‘feel it’. Feeling for other people’s distress, finding it upsetting, is what researchers think is a key motivator of moral behaviour.”
Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction
“It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.”
Source: The Source of Miracles: Seven Powerful Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Lord's Prayer
“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
“It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.”
Source: The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons
“It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.”
Source: Robopocalypse
“It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.”
“It is not enough to look only at the bright side. Because if you seek only after the light, you may end up getting burnt.”
“It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.”
“It is not enough to make good laws;
they must be enforced.
It is not enough to denounce bad laws;
they must be changed.
The better the laws the more righteous the judgments.
The wiser the rulers are the more prosperous a nation.”
“It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.”
“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.”
“It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.”
“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.”
“It is not enough to present literature as an object of study; it must be introduced as an experience.”
“It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.”
“It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.”
“It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.”
“It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.”
Source: A philosophical inquiry concerning human liberty
“It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.”
“It is not enough to say that high altitudes damage memory, one has to delve into the entire body to discover the underlying processes that eventually lead to permanent brain damage.”
“It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.”
“It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.”
Source: Steinbeck
“It is not enough to say that you are upset with something if you don't do anything to change it. If you want to know who a person truly is see what they do. Do they only talk or do they actually walk the walk! What do they get involved with? Making the world better or trying to divide us by pitting us against each other. Beware of the person that tries to divide and conquer”
“It is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or whatever. There are no words to capture the infinite depth of crowiness in the crow's flight. All we can do is use a word as an indicator, or a whole bunch of words as a general directive. But the ominous thing in the crow's flight, the bare-faced, bandit thing, the tattered beggarly gipsy thing, the caressing and shaping yet slightly clumsy gesture of the down-stroke, as if the wings were both too heavy and too powerful, and the headlong sort of merriment, the macabre pantomime ghoulishness and the undertaker sleekness - you could go on for a very long time with phrases of that sort and still have completely missed your instant, glimpse knowledge of the world of the crow's wingbeat. And a bookload of such descriptions is immediately rubbish when you look up and see the crow flying.”
Source: Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
“It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.”
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
“It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA.”
“It is not enough to say you will do something, you have to decide to do it. Don't procrastinate. Doing it is to do it. Not just saying it will be done.”
“It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other words, we must find out whether Islam can offer us precise directives for the formation of our society, and whether its inspiration is strong enough in us to translate these directives into practice.”
“It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".”
Source: Ordinary Language
“It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.”
Source: The Best of Marya Mannes
“It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'”
“It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.”