Practice Quotes

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

Good, Career, Living

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave

Life, Long, Nothing

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Morihei Ueshiba

Peace, Great, God

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
Thomas a Kempis

Men, Patience, Few

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland

Made, Times, Sacrifices

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen

Nature, Find, Meditation

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma

Nonsense, Buddhas

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

Means, Says, Principle

Practice puts brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead

Brains, Muscles, Puts

Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Charles Lamb

Life, Enjoy, Against

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba

Heart, Human, Fire

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

Writing, Purpose, Ideas

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Wise, Simple, Else

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti

Children, Enjoy, Find

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Pete Rose

Good, Father, Taught

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Sting

Spiritual, Making, Realize

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
Jimmy Carter

Faith, Islam, Political

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin

Marriage, Time, Taking

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Change, Philosophy

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Power, Government, Whole

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
Roald Dahl

God, Men, Another

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
James Beard

Enough, Around, Might

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma

Nature, Time, Imagine

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford

Life, Art, Training

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
Marco Rubio

Good, Husband, Bad

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
Tre Cool

Future, School, Perfect

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Bruce Jenner

Kids, Exercise, Asking

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Become, Moral, Takes

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
Vivienne Westwood

Morning, Minutes, Yoga

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