Words matter. These are the best Substitute Quotes from famous people such as Sean McDermott, Diane Sawyer, David Hogg, Eric Hoffer, Richard Cohen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I look for are guys that work hard, have a great work ethic and embrace that underdog mentality a little bit. And certainly there is no substitute for toughness.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished – DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence – life in prison is a worthy substitute.
There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.
I don’t compare myself with the late NTR, but I want to give livelihood to people. He was pro-poor, and people want me to substitute him and bring a change, and I will do that.
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too – hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.
Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn’t go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings.
No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it’s a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.
I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.
Like every player, I want to start more matches rather than be used as a substitute.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
It’s funny you can pretty much substitute the same actors in that top tier, whether it’s a Chris Evans or a Chris Pratt or a Chris Pine, for different movies and it becomes almost a joke. But it doesn’t happen that way for people of color.
Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today’s foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won’t buy. It bought me a house but it won’t buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won’t buy me a friend.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.
Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy – not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement.
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
If there is no God, the labels ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are merely opinions. They are substitutes for ‘I like it’ and ‘I don’t like it.’ They are not objective realities.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
There’s no substitute for taking a clear-eyed look at the threats we’ll face and asking how our force will adapt to meet those threats.
Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you’ll add eight to 24 years to your life.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
Best, I’d advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn’t be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds – the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can’t substitute time, you just can’t.
Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
American liberals are an external part of Israel’s conscience, and when it disdains them, it becomes a harder and more isolated place. The support that Israel has gained from millenarian American conservatives is no substitute, in part because such allies aren’t persuasive global advocates for Israel.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
There’s simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn’t created enough jobs, and it hasn’t produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
I do think there’s no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.
The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks – I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.
There’s no escalators – there’s only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.
There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
I’ll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there’s no substitute for experience. I don’t care how much natural talent you may have… In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with ‘efficiency gains.’
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art – I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
