Quotes with practice

  • To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
  • Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
  • Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
  • Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
  • The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
  • The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
  • If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
  • Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
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  • Confucius To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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  • William James Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bill Watterson 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
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Heywood Broun The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
    Source: Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • Bela Karolyi A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Hubert Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Robert Southey 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
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • C. Richards All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
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  • Brendon Urie All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carol Bellamy And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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