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“One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.”

“Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.”

Firsts Wells Sleep Practice Following Lust Appetite Restraint

Author:Pythagoras

“Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer”

Men World Ideas Wisdom Dream Young Humanity Practice Australia Idealist Actuality

Book:My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

Inspirational Moments Principles Practice Expression Limits Perfection Compromise Imperfect Practise Perfection And Imperfection

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.”

Needs Water Natural Practice Generations Citizens Resources Advantage Areas Forests Soil Wildlife Natural Resources This Generation Observant Inspirational Beauty

Author:Walt Disney

“The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.”

Practice Player Honest Lessons Fairs Being Honest

Book:Golf Secrets

Source: Golf Secrets

“It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.”

Ifs Feels Done Mistake Attitude Lord Practice Failing Benefits Expectations Yoga Disappear Miserable Selfishness Restless Adoration Mental Attitude Yoga Practice

Author:Dharma Mittra

“What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.”

Men Needs Practice Adversity Nerves

Book:The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.”

Heart Art Practice Calling Trade Medicine Medical Practice Of Medicine

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Practice Failing

Author:Gail Sher

“Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.”

Mean Common Practice Common Sense

Author:Will Rogers

“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.”

People Ifs Thinking World Different Would Be Religious Practice Enlightenment Cards Description Enlightened Hallmark Religious Practices Hallmark Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.”

Light Roles Practice Teacher Students Pure Planes Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.”

Sometimes Certain Attention Practice Study Teacher Masters Enlightened Miraculous Transmission

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.”

Ifs Mean Strong Practice Teacher Resistance Torture Enlightened Not Interested Monk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.”

Ifs Way Done Motivational Asks Perfect Practice Areas Shoes One Way Ties Consistently Amazed Reap Dividends

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.”

People Thinking Motivational Practice Tradition Phones Breathe Rings Clock Tension Halls Village Dining Plums Chimes

Author:Nhat Hanh

“What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'”

Ifs Giving Motivational Today Used Levels Practice Player Tomorrow Percent Determine Give 100 Percent

Author:John Wooden

“Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.”

Mind Seems Motivational Attention Practice Tvs Connections Defeat Work Out Speed Daydreaming Boost Processing Neural Networks

Book:Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Source: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.”

Ifs Knows Mind Running Levels Compassion Practice Risk Mouths Great Risk Talk Is Cheap

Author:Gelek Rimpoche

“Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion”

Sin Compassion Teach Practice Study Students Enlightenment Essence Profound Tolerance Rely Emptiness Urges Grammar Refrain Dualism

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.”

Individual Practice Buddhism Endeavor Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.”

Mind Practice Yoga Discrimination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.”

Practice Yoga Lifetime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.”

Feels Trying Sometimes Reason Life Is Purpose Practice Illusion Yoga Empty No Reason Life Has No Meaning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.”

Humans Facts Practice Conscious Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.”

Ifs Littles Helping Practice Yoga Daily Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.”

Courses Individual Practice Path Evolution Yoga Superiors Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.”

Children Helping Problem Love Is Practice Cry Yoga Love Is Like Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.”

Self Beautiful Practice Acceptance Yoga Self Acceptance Beautiful Life Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

School Perfect Practice Future Life School Life Nobody's Perfect Practice Makes Perfect Perfect Practice

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.”

Giving Practice Balance Yoga Harmony Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving Balance And Harmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.”

Giving Spirit Easy Results Practice Keys Yoga Karma Selfless Detachment Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!”

Giving Fun Practice Yoga Karma Remarkable Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.”

People Giving Wells Stills Spiritual Practice Yoga Rounds Edges Karma Egotistical Spiritual Practice Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Spiritual Practice Working It Spiritual Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.”

People Self Practice Discovery Caught Self Discovery Description Caught Up Things Change Isms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.”

Practice Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.”

Practice Destiny Meditation Masters Empowerment Guidance Enlightened

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.”

Thinking Wells Practice Humility Buddhism Ill

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to.”

World Spirituality Strong Practice This World Buddhism Fortune Purity Service To Others

Author:Frederick Lenz

“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”

Desire Purpose Moral Practice Land Tears Development Safe Mountain Creating Function Treasure Destructive Flats Coal Removal Mining Bowels Burglars

Author:Joseph Conrad

“It's good practice to be silly. It's good for you.”

Women Practice Silly Being Silly

Author:Tatjana Maria

“This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.”

Sports Practice Ego Bases Mma Cages

Author:Carlos Condit

“Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.”

People Knows Spiritual Practice Method Mysticism Introduction Spiritual Practice Dissolving Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.”

Persons Practice Path Enlightenment Speed Comparison Introduction Path To Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.”

People Practice Balanced Grounded Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.”

Different Whole School Certain Order Practice Teaching Degrees Hierarchy Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.”

Ifs Practice Masters Conservative Traditional Introduction Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.”

Years Lasts Practice Conservative Japan Strict Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz