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“Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better. The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”

Mean Winning Practice Get Better Each Day Will To Win One More Day

Author:Juma Ikangaa

“We need to be acquainted with the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and we need to practice and apply gospel teachings until they become natural and automatic. These promptings become the foundation of our testimonies. Then our testimonies will keep us happy and safe in troubled times.”

Needs Natural Practice Teaching Holy Safe Foundation Ghost Testimony Holy Ghost Troubled Times

Author:Allan F. Packer

“How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.”

Running Winning Effort Race Practice Products Losing Performances Planning Preparation Win Or Lose

Book:Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)

Source: Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)

“Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.”

People Whole Courses Difficult Practice Civilization Capable Training Series Great Things Operations Difficult Things Advancing

Book:The London and Westminster Review

Source: The London and Westminster Review

“Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.”

Years Mind Stills Done Practice Grace Week One Day Essentials Yoga Perseverance Requirements Grace Of God

Author:Bede Griffiths

“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.”

People Mean Imagination Practice Danger Brave Errors

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.”

Enough United Practice Teaching Holy Convince

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.”

Stories Past Spiritual Loss Practice Tears Shed Honorable Spiritual Practice

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.”

People Believe Practice Goodness

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.”

Needs May Practice Singing Bird Window Sunlight Reminders Streaming

Book:Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

Source: Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

“Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.”

People Ifs Humans Doe Happens Pain Joy Pleasure Practice Happened Like You Ought Creating Unity Busy Esteem Human Society No Love Like Yourself

Author:Meister Eckhart

“The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.”

Practice Benefits

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.”

Mind Kind Practice Pure Yoga Vegetarianism Harmonious

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.”

Practice Honesty Indispensable Invaluable

Author:Stephen King

“Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.”

Men Two Together Natural Practice Importance Medicine Ancient Illness Fever Ancient Times Natural Phenomena Fermentation Practice Of Medicine

Author:Louis Pasteur

“And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.”

Thinking Should Kind Littles Stories Film Asks Energy Results Fiction Practice Scene Capable Asking Dollars Producers Fiction Writers

Author:Les Standiford

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.”

Feels Persons Views Practice Ego Strive Everyday Point Of View Instant Helpful Controversy Attacking Pointers

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.”

Persons Spiritual House Practice Study Fool Blueprints Spiritual Practice

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.”

Thinking World Ideas Country Beautiful Process Practice Errors Finished Trials France Rest Of Your Life Indonesia Trial And Error Beautiful Country

Author:Goenawan Mohamad

“The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing.”

Grows Practice Stronger Leap

Book:No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power

Source: No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power

“There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.”

United Powerful Practice Constant Most Powerful Recollection

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.”

Trying Believe Christian Christ Practice Teaching Example Patterns Related

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.”

Has Beens Talking Practice Walking Conviction Hearing Profession Honestly Reformation Hearing God

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“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.”

Spirit Sound Practice Return Holy Doctrine Holy Spirit Revival Reformation Sound Doctrine

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Practice, work hard and give it everything you've got.”

Giving Hard Practice Hard Work

Author:Dizzy Dean

“If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.”

Ifs Would Be Practice Impossible Planets Findings Tasks Odds Galaxy Spaceships

Author:Richard Dawkins

“You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.”

Said Practice Meditation Walking Mindfulness Enlightenment Awakened Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others' - and thereby find peace and happiness yourself.”

“Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.”

Years Real Teach Practice Mystery Certainty Gardener

Book:The Gardener's Year

Source: The Gardener's Year

“The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.”

Firsts Steps Practice Training Recognition First Steps

Author:Dogen

“So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.”

Men Natural Practice Violence Sufficient Hostility Indulgence Provocation

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.”

Mind Self Reality Remember Dies Practice Higher Another Life

Author:Leanne Payne

“The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you”

Important Moments Spiritual Life Is Pleasure Practice Holy Spiritual Life Presence Of God God Is With You

Author:Brother Lawrence

“If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.”

Source: Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal

“You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.”

Believe Practice Theory Deny Deceiving

Book:Lectures to Professing Christians

Source: Lectures to Professing Christians

“Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783

“The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.”

Men Giving Fall Easy Practice Willing Promise Flesh Deception Indifference Wicked Mutual Indulgence Entrances

Book:Commentary on Luke

Source: Commentary on Luke

“According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.”

Ifs Men Humans God Christian Belief Church Practice Theory Sake Theologian God Exists Presbyterians Anti Liberal

Book:Christianity and Liberalism

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.”

Knows Mean Practice Circumstances

Book:How to Study Your Bible

Source: How to Study Your Bible

“All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still easier to those who persevere in the practice of these three virtues.”

Believe Stills Three Easy Difficult Practice Virtue Easier All Things Persevere

Author:Kirk Cameron

“Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others.”

People Ifs Art Character Use Remember Nations Practice Virtue Wise Depends Reader Blessing Prove Contrary Miserable Curse Righteousness Spheres Thyself Gracious

Author:Patrick Henry

“The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.”

Men Firsts House Prayer Views Pay Practice Week He Man Members Paid Congress Opening Acceptable Amendments Session Violation First Amendment Interruptions Clauses Chaplains

Author:Warren E. Burger

“Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.”

Giving Littles Reason Desire Principles Practice Essentials Endure

Author:Dean L. Larsen

“Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.”

Needs Looks Use Lying Suffering Consciousness Roles Practice Mindfulness Garden Roots Plant Seeds Guides Who We Are Gardener Greatest Gifts

Author:Nhat Hanh

“What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.”

Thinking Way Dream Nations Causes Wealth Practice Capitalism Democratic Practicals Socialism Latter Inferiors Superiority Wealth Of Nations Democratic Socialism

Book:The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Source: The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

“The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.”

People Done Government Church Poor Company Practice Politician Standards Program Raises Hungry Kitchen Feds Capitalist Soup Standards Of Living Clergymen Archer Monsanto Soup Kitchens

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.”

Government Practice Changed Institutions Financial Tunes Massive Frank Collapse Intervention Mortgage Default Congressman Lending Financial Institutions Government Intervention Foreclosure

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.”

“Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.”

Facts Government Political Practice Stage Media Financial Disaster Rhetoric Obscure Payment Mortgage Lending Political Rhetoric

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.”

Thinking Practice Granted

Author:Leonard Read

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