Substitute Quotes

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.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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.

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.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

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.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

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.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.