Practice Quotes

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Happy, Others, Compassion

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Yourself, Everything, Desire

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

Best, Teacher, Enemy

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Courage, Important, Nothing

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

God, School, Made

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

Worth, Preaching, Ounce

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Cannot

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

God, Freedom, Country

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

God, School, Made

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen

Dreams, Work, Hard

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama

Respect, Others, Sense

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

Medical, Christian, Same

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin

Enough, Honest, Fools

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Cannot, Moment, Compromise

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan

Game, Real, Win

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Kindness, Perfect, Soul

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Political

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra

Between, Difference, Theory

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

Important, Gift, Emotions

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Work, Good

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

Character, Person, Mean

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

Important, Healing

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus

Order, Generosity, Charity

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Will Smith

Talent, Ridiculous, Insane

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

Women, Men, Mind

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

Two, Before, Old

One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato

Success, Cannot, Arts

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers

Work, Liberty, Speeches

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will Rogers

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