Substitute Quotes

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.
Mark Twain

Time, Writing, Write

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Humor, Good, Truth

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho

Experience, Nothing, Brave

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

True, Someone, Person

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Big, Poor

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Good, Enough

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley

Talent, Industry, Virtues

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

Justice, Charity, Withheld

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce

Debt, Chain, Ingenious

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot

Religion, Literature, Convinced

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

Politics, Men, Show

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

Suffering, Neurosis, Legitimate

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton

Live, Reality, Real

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis

Successful, However, Close

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey

Home, Positive, Strength

In war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

Work, Science, Facts

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James

Life, Beauty, Art

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Lost, Holy

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers

Power, Knowledge, Confidence

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

Ability, Wit, Quote

There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana

Worse, Modern, Argument

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Nature, Self, Mastery

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Good, Reading, Fill

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
Tony Dungy

Dad, Live, Children

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer

Pride, Variants

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