Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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.
Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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.
I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.
Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy - not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
There is no substitute for victory.
Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
