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.
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.
It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from – there’s no substitute for hard work.
There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.
Look, my mother’s not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there’s no substitute for a husband and partner.
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
My aesthetic is, in short, ‘cool substitute teacher.’
I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.
An ascot is never a substitute for a well-tied four-in-hand tie or a slightly disheveled bow tie.
Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they’re not good substitutes for grid electricity.
Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
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.
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother’s advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
The thrill of winning or losing, or getting on the field and coaching on Saturday afternoons, that’s all great. But it’s the association with the players, and that’s lifelong. That is the one thing you miss and you can’t substitute for it.
My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy.
There is no substitute for hard work, and the most important thing is the belief that you can succeed.
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
When I finally addressed my stuttering – I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy for speech – one of the exercises was making sure that we say what we want to say and not substitute words.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.
There’s no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
All the praise I received couldn’t substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life – but there didn’t seem to be any, at least not for me.
I initially found it difficult with my role as a substitute, sometimes sitting in the stands at Spurs, but I learned to deal with it.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
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.
The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that’s now inferior.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I like live audiences, with real people – virtual reality is no substitute.
It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for ‘showing up’ and embodying the message.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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.
There is no substitute for a real location when you’re trying to shoot the jungle. You can’t just go anywhere. You’ve got to go where it’s lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
I could list hundreds of words I’ve come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
Trying to imagine what it’s like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other’s experiences.
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.
In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force – an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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.
You have to eat well, drink enough water and get enough sleep to look your best, and no fancy creams will substitute that.
There’s no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
For busy young adults, the lure of meal substitutes is simple – it’s all about convenience – the level of effort to open a bottle or package is minimal, and the time from thinking you’re hungry to eating is almost zero.
I don’t believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word ‘god’ for ‘natural selection’ in a lot of evolutionary writings and you’d think you were listening to a theologian.
I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Don’t let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won’t be enough.
I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there’s no substitute for reality and politicians.
Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
I always substitute the word ‘feedback’ for ‘failure.’
I packed my bags and went back to California and actually put wrestling behind me. I actually thought, well you know what, I thought it was crazy I made it once and to think I’m going to come back or whatever was unrealistic goal. So I went back to bodyguarding and substitute teaching.
Love what you do. There’s always going to be someone else who’s smarter than you, but there’s no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.
There is no substitute for victory.
There’s really no substitute for being able to sit across from someone, have eye contact, see and read their body language, hear the inflection in their voice in a real way.
In doing God’s work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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.
Somehow, married or single, we’d rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let’s face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
