183 Substance Quotes for You to Enjoy

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Mahatma Gandhi

Truth Truth Is Morality Substance Things Basis

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide. Travis Bradberry

Depression Thoughts Experience People Intelligence Anxiety Suicide Other Mood More Emotional Emotional Intelligence Fail Abuse Likely Effective Managing Substance Turn Means Skills Use Less Who Even Twice

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. Susan Cheever

You Addicted Addiction Mood About Alteration Substance Brings

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare

Dream Shadow Merely Ambitious Very Substance

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

You Lose Shadow Beware Substance Grasping Lest

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. Freddie Mercury

Worth Musician Some Remembered Dead Substance Want

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. Les Brown

Life Dreams Own Live Active Design Our Our Dreams Ways Destinies Charge Must Take Look Force Truly Begin Substance Lives

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. Bernard de Mandeville

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. Duane Chapman

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. Bradley Whitford

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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

You Lose Shadow Beware Substance Grasping

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. David Bowie

Intelligence Passion Believe Universe Bereft Though Visual Religious Rituals Buddhist Powerful Catholic Empty Provocative May Behind Substance Whether Agent Incense Even Awe Necessarily

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out. Mary Roach

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. George Soros

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. Gilbert Newton Lewis

Life Music Every Increase Inquire Machinery Complexity Seeking Properties Leads New Like Arrangement Often Substance Form Incalculable Electrical Origin

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. Gottfried Leibniz

God Lie Changes Must Only Call Ultimate Source Exists Substance Which Reason Differentiation Things Necessary

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. John Henry Newman

Corruption Evil Own Only Excess Substance Which Perversion Defect

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance. Lauren Jauregui

People Say Absorb Talk Lot Listen Substance Anything

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. Mario Cuomo

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance. Robert Graham

Art People Impossible Think Something Make Substance Anything Decide Public

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