Practice Quotes

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou

Life, Far, Godly

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey

Life, Nothing, Lie

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Become

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Carol Bellamy

Rights, Ourselves, Dignity

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy

Love, Time, Respect

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Two, Storm, Plan

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley

Difficult, Physics, Magic

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
Ernest Holmes

Good, Teach, Ought

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Doug Coupland

Good, Crisis, Spiritual

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush

Life, Live, End

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Family, Patience, Society

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

Beautiful, Democracy, Theory

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time, Mistakes, Win

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Marcel Proust

Life, Time, Live

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry

Good, May, Keep

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen

Life, Selfish, Though

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
Andre Agassi

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

Others, Hidden, South

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Power, Live

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler

Alone, Become, Learn

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore

Courage, Pain, Mistakes

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster

Life, Easy, Chronicle

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm

Time, Failure, Makes

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

Good, Mind, Feeling

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

Music, Others, While

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire

Language, Handle, Skillfully

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Albert Pike

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
Marianne Williamson

Spiritual, Service, Seen

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt

Great, Thoughts, Become

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
Susan Powter

Work, Hard, Mean

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