“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Variant: Sometimes love isn't enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?
Source: Reflected in You
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“What we offer is good enough. It's like my haircut: It ain't pretty, but it's good enough.”
Scott McNealy (1954) American businessman
Sun CEO: We're "good enough", 2006-08-25, 2002-10-08, Ricciuti, Mike, CNET News.com, http://archive.is/4UmxS, 2013-06-28 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-961216.html,
“Sometimes just wanting to do a good role, a great role, isn't a good enough reason to do it.”
Annette Bening (1958) American actress
THR Full Oscar Actress Roundtable 2017, at 9 Min 19 Sec https://youtube.com/watch?v=IaZVY7O2Ku0?t=559 <br class="br">From interview with The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable
“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”
Stephen King book The Dead Zone
Source: The Dead Zone 1979
“If it’s good enough for the cosmos, it’s good enough for humankind.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Joycelyn Elders (1933) American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006
“What, eBay isn't good enough for us?”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Final Warning
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified