Substitute Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war. — Vera Brittain

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is inspite of pain. — Jon Foreman

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as children; this reinforcement comes in the form of a negative social pressure to soothe ourselves, to try to obtain instant gratification ... Many people who suffered deprivation in childhood continue to accept substitute gratifications in the forms of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, television, video games, overwork, and other activities that distract them from experiencing their real lives. — Lisa Firestone

There's no substitute for a regular, smart trainning. No shortcuts, no secrets. Practice well and often, and you'll get there. — David Belle

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing. — Flannery O'Connor

Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear. — Sharon Kirstin

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. — Charles Dickens

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else. — Paula Marantz Cohen

The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.
- The power of your subconcious mind — Joseph Murphy

We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure. — Anup Kochhar

The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. — Joanne Harris

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There's no substitute for loyalty. — James Lee Burke

There can be no substitute for a personal study of the Word of God! Daily devotionals, Bible commentaries, and recorded messages by anointed preachers and teachers are wonderful and useful. However, they cannot take the place of the Word of God. They must not replace a time of personal study of the Word. Every Christian individual must study and meditate upon the Word for him or herself. Nobody can do that for anyone else. — Pedro Okoro

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified. And it's an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable? — Deborah Eisenberg

And who wouldn't wish that? Certainly everyone here- dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes- wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to be. Because even worlds with dragons and time machines seem to be more ordered than our own. When you live for stories, when you spend so much of your time immersed in careful constructs of three and five acts, it sometimes feels like you're just stumbling through the rest of life, trying to divine meaningful narrative threads from the chaos. Which, as I learned the hard way this weekend, can be painfully fruitless. Fiction is there when real life fails you. But it's not a substitute. — Sarvenaz Tash

Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an improvement in life. This kind of discernment is an act of decency, not an act of judgment. Rigid philosophies of judgment will seek to establish structure as a substitute for decency, control as a substitute for trust, and the mind as a substitute for higher awareness. — Glenda Green

The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as "swami", "baba" and "guru" are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors. — Abhijit Naskar

I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere. — Richard Paul Evans

If Jesus Christ was a substitute for sin as clearly seen on Calvary
Then why is sin now a substitute for our daily living, moving and being instead — Louis

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. — Jef Mallett

Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom. — Debasish Mridha