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“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” This quote by Mahatma Gandhi sends a message to all mankind to stop lecturing about life and start implementing hard work in the daily life. This quote is not only inspirational but is also a good example of spiritual practice. The word practice also has different meanings and is used under diverse context such as educational, legal, exercises and traditional methods. Read through the article to know more about these famous practice quotations and sayings spoken by renowned personalities.

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Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Jean Paul

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Herman Hesse

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Marilyn Manson

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Herbert Hoover

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

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Theodore Roosevelt

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Thomas Paine

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Vince Lombardi

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Brian Tracy

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Wayne Gretzky

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Colin Powell

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Billy Graham

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Og Mandino

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Og Mandino

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

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Timothy Leary

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Marlene Dietrich

Learn by practice.

Martha Graham

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John Cage

Everything is practice.

Pele

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver.

Willa Cather

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Plutarch

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Plutarch

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

Satchel Paige

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

Lawrence Peter Berra

To read too many books is harmful.

Mao Zedong

Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume

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

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

Larry Bird

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

Gloria Steinem

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Charlie Parker

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

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Hank Aaron

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Hank Aaron

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

Mickey Mantle

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

Steve Nash

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry B. Adams

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Gail Godwin

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Aaliyah

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

Cameron Diaz

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

J. Lubbock

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

Garry Shandling

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

Garth Brooks

It's always good to be working.

Ja Rule

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Gary Player

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Lauryn Hill

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

Gene Tierney

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

George III

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Otto von Bismarck

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

James Boswell

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Alicia Keys

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

James Fenimore Cooper

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Charles Kettering

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Charles Kingsley

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

P. J. Harvey

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Loretta Young

I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

Paul Bourget

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Louis Nizer

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

Pete Rose

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Pete Rose

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Chinua Achebe

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

Jason Mraz

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

Maimonides

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A lot of work. A lot of vocal coaching, a lot of instrument training.

Reese Witherspoon

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

Ted Nugent

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Jesse Owens

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