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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi

Worth, Practice, Preaching

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Power, Win, Down

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worth, Action, Theory

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West

Worth, Promises, Pounds

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

May, Learned, Training

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Worth, Clergy

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller

God, Sadness, Worth

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes

Courage, Stars, Last

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Help, Person, Down

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese

Power, Strength, Single

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
Joan Crawford

Good, Friend, Sense

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
Paula Poundstone

Thankful, Put, Three

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
Benjamin Carson

Person, Talent, Order

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.
Michael Symon

Life, Try, Cooking

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer

Freedom, Giving, Serious

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
Bear Grylls

Give, Eyes, Hot

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

Ambition, Worth, Pound

I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.
Frank Miller

Love, Work, Fun

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
Patty Duke

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.
Cindy Margolis

Somebody, Pay, Celebrity

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.
Method Man

Germany, Smoked

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.
Drew Brees

Confidence, Reason, Playing

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
John Ray

Love, Law, Thousand

Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
Octavia Spencer

Love, Pain, Sorry

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arianna Huffington

Time, Working, Energy

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.
Julian Castro

Young, Talent, Action

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.
Karl Urban

Fight, Through, Pretty

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
Ted Lindsay

Winning, Battle, Night

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
Charles S. Dutton

Work, Learned, Impossible

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
Louis Finkelstein

Time, Hope, Strength

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