Instead Quotes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

The best way to stimulate emancipation is to start to educate your sons to be humans instead of men, and to educate your daughters to be humans instead of women.

A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick.