Substitute Quotes

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience. (Paulo Coelho)
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. View quote
Carl Jung
There is no substitute for victory. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. View quote
William Howard Taft
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. View quote
John Ruskin
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. View quote
Iris Murdoch
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. (Diane Sawyer)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. View quote
George Santayana
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. View quote
James A. Garfield
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. View quote
William Cowper
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. View quote
T. S. Eliot
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. (Warren Buffett)
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. View quote
Mark Twain
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit. View quote
Julian Fellowes
If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order. View quote
Alfred Hermann Fried