Top 100 No Substitute Quotes
#1. Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
Elie Wiesel
#3. I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Maria Bartiromo
#4. One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision ... No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.
Ayn Rand
#7. Arrogance is no substitute for experience,Fey.
C.L. Wilson
#9. This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
John Darnielle
#10. Even with God's help there is no substitute for the hard work.
Valentina
#11. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#12. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.
Eli Broad
#14. The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The
Edward Gibbon
#15. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch
#16. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volitions. No man is qualified to declare what would make another man happier or less discontented.
Ludwig Von Mises
#17. Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People
C. G. Jung
#18. Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington
regardless of who wins the Presidency.
James Bovard
#19. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Bertrand Russell
#20. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
#22. There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.
Lilly Singh
#23. There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are - that is to say, your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
Roland Barthes
#27. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Henry James
#28. There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#29. Nature is the one thing for which there is no substitute! One
Anne Frank
#31. There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
Jim Ratcliffe
#32. Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
E.B. White
#33. There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.
Alan Moore
#34. 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.
William Howard Taft
#35. Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the punishment of our sin was borne by Christ, a full atonement was made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
Karen Marie Moning
#37. Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
#39. I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.
Ellen Hopkins
#40. I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Jim Webb
#41. No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.
Hillary Clinton
#44. Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.
Hilary Kornblith
#45. The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
Francis Ford Coppola
#47. An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.
Eleanor Brownn
#48. 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.
Bob Barker
#49. There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
Maria Montessori
#50. So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
William James
#51. All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.
Tim Allen
#52. We are still looking for opportunities in plantation, in palm oil. When it is bad, you want to buy because, in the long term, I am confident that plantation is a good bet. To me, it is always in demand; there is no substitute yet for palm oil.
Edwin Soeryadjaya
#53. To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver
#54. I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
Eddie Cahill
#55. There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
Charles Dickens
#57. No book or theory can serve as a substitute for lived experience.
Marty Rubin
#58. I had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. they weren't as safe, and they could jam. i had never been one to substitute quantity for quality, and there was no substitution for being informed and practiced
Patricia Cornwell
#59. I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry James
#60. There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.
Robert A. Cook
#61. It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.
Jaco Pastorius
#62. There is no substitute for the Truth, either it is or it isn't.
India.Arie
#63. A cop told me, a long time ago, that there's no substitute for knowing what you're doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that're any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.
George V. Higgins
#64. Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Josh Billings
#65. The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men
Calvin Coolidge
#66. Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.
Walter Cronkite
#67. A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.
Wes Fesler
#68. The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM
Jack Jones
#69. Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. 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.
Ivanka Trump
#71. A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.
Cornelia Funke
#72. Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
#73. 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.
J.G. Ballard
#74. Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess
but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck!
Larry McMurtry
#75. God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.
John Piper
#76. Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
#77. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
Mary Martin
#78. There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
Gary Cherone
#79. Substitute any vegetable that grows with its leafy head aboveground for another: a flower for a flower, a root for a root, shoot for shoot, stem for stem, tuber for tuber. (No rules apply to beets.
Tamar Adler
#80. Spirituality is natural, personal, and rooted in direct experience. There is no such thing as secondhand spirituality. No one else's spirituality can serve as substitute for your own.
David Cowan
#81. When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.
Elly Griffiths
#82. Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#83. There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Paul Mellon
#84. A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
Stephen Hawking
#85. There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
Wayne Dyer
#86. To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
Harry Callahan
#87. Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Edmund Morgan
#88. Rules are no substitute for character.
Coach K
#89. Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.
Fred C. Koch
#91. There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.
Wendell Berry
#92. There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.
Napoleon Hill
#93. There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.
John Ridley
#94. There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
Jim George
#95. I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion
#96. The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
Hubert M. Blalock
#98. Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Stephen Covey
#99. I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
Branch Warren
#100. There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.
Hope Solo
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