Quotes about Practice

We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Observe this simple counsel of perfection: Forsake all, and you shall find all. Renounce desire, and you shall find peace. Give this due thought, and when you have put it into practice, you will understand all things.

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

Of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I'm sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Go put your creed into your deed...

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

I can get the physical exercise done with practice and staying in shape. But you've got to sharpen the mental side.

I have always held it an opinion (making it also my practice) that it is better to obey a bad law, making use at the same time of every argument to shew its errors and procure its repeal, than forcibly to violate it; because the precedent of breaking a bad law might weaken the force, and lead to a discretionary violation, of those which are good.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…

He was suffering from self-love, a chief cure for which is the practice of love for others.

enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice.