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Quotes about Practice

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
— John Calvin
We best learn patience by practicing it.
— Jim Elliot
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
— Charles Kettering
Skill to do comes of doing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Francis Schaeffer
Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.
— Bruce Lee
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
— Charles Hodge
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
— William Faulkner
The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.
— William Hazlitt
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
— David Brainerd
Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible (you may recall that Paul enjoined slaves to obey their masters "in fear and trembling" as they would Christ).
— David Livingstone Smith
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
— Alphonsus Liguori