Top 100 No Substitute Quotes
#1. 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.
Steve Ballmer
#2. My dear fellow, money is no substitute for the right kind of friend ...
Frances Hardinge
#3. There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.
Ken Jeong
#4. There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
James Beard
#6. Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
Ellis Peters
#7. There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do as disciples of Jesus Christ. We can never truly be happy or have great hope unless we follow Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness.
David S. Baxter
#8. While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.
Scott Weiss
#9. There's no substitute for a regular, smart trainning. No shortcuts, no secrets. Practice well and often, and you'll get there.
David Belle
#11. The legendary Princeton team (Hobey Baker) played 120 minutes of no-substitute hockey in less than 24 hours, eighty of those minutes shorthanded, and remarkably defeated all challengers.
Emil R. Salvini
#12. There is no substitute for an understanding mind. Satan can defeat the ignorant believer, but he cannot overcome the Christian who knows his Bible and understands the purposes of God.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#13. Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.
Neal A. Maxwell
#16. Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
Sharad Pawar
#17. Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#18. If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft ... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
Anthony Burgess
#19. The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer
#21. There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
Warren Buffett
#22. There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
Thomas Friedman
#23. Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#24. It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.
J. Reuben Clark
#25. Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.
John Stossel
#26. Dunn's Law:
Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
Arthur Bloch
#27. There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
Walter Camp
#28. I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.
C. G. Jung
#29. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
Walt Kelly
#30. Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#31. Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
Anne Rice
#34. There is really no substitute for a well thought out and perfectly executed plan of action.
Steven Redhead
#35. I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton
#36. There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca
#37. There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
Heather Bresch
#39. Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.
Benjamin Wood
#40. There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.
Elizabeth George
#41. In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#42. I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
Meredith Duran
#43. But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
Tom Peters
#44. Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.
Margaret Thatcher
#45. Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill
#46. I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
Steven Spielberg
#49. In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.
Bill Anderson
#50. The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.
Timothy Mo
#51. There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
Zach Galligan
#52. I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.
Stephen Gaghan
#54. Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
Bertrand Russell
#55. A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
Craig Newmark
#57. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
Ayn Rand
#59. There is no substitute for attentive repetition.
Daniel Coyle
#60. A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett
#61. What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.
Oprah Winfrey
#62. Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.
Frank Robinson
#63. 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.
Rachelle Lefevre
#64. We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.
Tim Cope
#65. Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.
Aldous Huxley
#66. There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
Harper Lee
#67. Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#68. Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Paul Mellon
#69. There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#70. Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.
Frederick Lenz
#71. It may be no substitute ... and might just be an unwanted favor ... but it meant a lot to you, right? You shouldn't break something that's important to you. Don't ever try to erase your most precious feelings, okay?
Hinako Ashihara
#72. No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
Shirley Jackson
#73. Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?
Adrian McKinty
#74. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.
Peter Drucker
#75. There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.
Tom Hanks
#76. Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning the pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.
J.K. Rowling
#78. From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"
Douglas MacArthur
#80. Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.
Hugh Mackay
#82. Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan
#83. There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
Rich Lowry
#84. There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.
Hillary Clinton
#86. Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
Charlie Fowler
#87. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
Mary Ellen Chase
#88. The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.
Frank Leahy
#89. Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
J.B. Priestley
#91. Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.
James Lankford
#93. There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. Sport ... teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
Fiona Wood
#95. There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.
Mark Joyner
#96. The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
Patricia Hill Collins
#97. There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.
India.Arie
#98. The stories of Harmonius and Aristogeiton, of Phaedrus of the Theban Band were well enough for those whose hearts were empty, but no substitute for life. That Clive should occasionally prefer them puzzled him.
E. M. Forster
#99. There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
Keith Richards
#100. However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis
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