“It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.”
Rene Balcer (1954) screenwriter, producer and director
DA Arthur Branch in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode In the Wee Small Hours.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
“Enough or not… it will have to do”
— Leo Tolstoy, book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
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Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 168, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
A Doctor's Work, an address at Middlesex Hospital (October 1908).
Other works
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Moshe Safdie (1938) Israeli-Canadian architect
from lecture Megascale, Order and Complexity held in Emmertal, Germany on July 27, 2008
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.”
Steve Perry (1947) American writer
Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 4