Sufficient Quotes

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that I deal with facts, that I deal with sufficient information. Which means having access to all information.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

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.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

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.

There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

Adequacy is sufficient.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.