Top 88 Best Antidote Quotes
#1. Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.
Suzy Kassem
#2. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks
#3. The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
Gerry Spence
#4. The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.
Tim Wu
#6. The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work ...
Helena Rubinstein
#7. The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#9. The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
Gail Godwin
#10. Humans always have fear of an unknown situation
this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
John Herschel
#11. The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#14. I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it's more interesting.
Howard Hawks
#16. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.
Lauren Mackler
#17. Perhaps the best antidote and preventive for burnout is the feeling of solid connection with the people in our lives. When we can share our frustrations with family and friends, our burden is eased and we can get new perspectives.
Richard O'Connor
#18. The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#20. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
#21. The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.
Norman Vincent Peale
#22. The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.
Jewel
#23. Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.
Amit Ray
#24. Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
George Steiner
#25. A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Phyllis Bottome
#26. In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.
Wesley Morris
#27. One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.
Sam Levenson
#28. Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
Dean Koontz
#29. After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.
Marianne Williamson
#31. The only effective antidote to the wickedness around us is to live differently from this moment forward.
Philip Yancey
#32. If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
Donald Hall
#33. I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.
Ben Lerner
#34. Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.
M.J. Ryan
#35. My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Joseph Addison
#36. If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds with
the cyanide to produce less toxic compounds.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
Anne Lamott
#38. The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
Jack Nicholson
#40. As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward Abbey
#41. The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.
Dalai Lama
#42. Labor is an antidote for angst and general misery, and the fear that the Devil is going to grab you by the throat at any moment and bring you down into the fiery pit.
Anne Rice
#43. Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.
Cidney Swanson
#45. If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
Will.i.am
#46. my antidote to Black Swans is precisely to be noncommoditized in my thinking. But
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#47. Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
Oliver Goldsmith
#48. We need an army of white-haired, wild-eyed radicals cutting a swath against the sexism that crosses our paths. It is a good antidote to the larger community's apparent belief that older women are slightly dotty, grandmotherly, benign souls.
Shari Graydon
#50. My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.
Bruce Lansky
#51. It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.
Scott Oden
#52. Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.
J.K. Rowling
#53. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.
Richard Louv
#55. The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#56. The antidote to fear is trust, and we all have a desire to find something to trust in an uncertain world. Fear and trust are powerful forces, and while they are not opposites, exactly, trust is the best tool for driving out fear.
Ed Catmull
#57. If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
Bill Hybels
#58. The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Bill Vaughan
#60. And like some part of himself that, two days ago, had thought pray and propriety were antidote enough to what ailed the world.
Zoe Ferraris
#61. The antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.
David Hewson
#62. Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance ...
J. Richard Clarke
#63. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
Bertrand Russell
#64. The actions driven by fear and guilt are not an antidote to lukewarm, selfish, comfortable living. I hope you realize that the answer is love.
Francis Chan
#65. Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
Ronald Fisher
#66. Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.
William Shakespeare
#67. Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#68. We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca The Younger
#69. Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.
Fennel Hudson
#70. There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.
Garson Kanin
#71. The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.
Nick Baylis
#72. Dissanayake writes that art that engages the mind and hands, that is not just passive connoisseurship, can act as an antidote, for our contentious and alienated relationship to our own societies.
David Byrne
#73. Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
#74. Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
Mary McCarthy
#75. To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.
Pope Francis
#76. Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.
Bradley Whitford
#77. The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
E. O. Wilson
#78. It was like a curse. He was her antidote. She was his poison.
Claire Merle
#79. When the present stung her, she sought her antidote in the future, which was as sure to hold achievement as the dying flower to hold the fruit when its petals wither.
Elspeth Huxley
#80. The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
Jerry Bridges
#81. Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin.
Anna Broadway
#82. More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.
Ginn Hale
#83. A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
Bruce Forsyth
#84. selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.
Michael A. Stackpole
#85. Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
George Sanders
#86. When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
Sue Grafton
#87. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.
Miya Yamanouchi
#88. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
John Taliaferro
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
