J. P. Morgan Quotes

Enough or not...it will have to do

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Adequacy is sufficient.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Nobody was really happy but everyone could accept.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

Something's always better than nothing.

I wanted Jordans, but I had to get Rugged Outbacks. I had to take it for what it was worth, but now I'm able to give back and it feels real good.