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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. – Hyman Rickover
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards – Mark Twain
Life is a practice. – Bryant McGill
Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery. – Bryant McGill
Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. – Sir Walter Scott
Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. – Vince Lombardi
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. – Socrates
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. – Confucius, The Confucian Analects
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. – Saadi
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. – Maya Angelou
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. – Elias Canetti
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart. – Confucius
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. – Plato
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it... – Aristotle
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. – Aldous Huxley
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' – Lewis Carroll
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. – M. C. Richards
An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use. – Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures and Program Design
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. – Charles Franklin Kettering
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. – Arnold J. Toynbee
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. – Sydney Harris
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. – Francis Bacon
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. – Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Deception is just a feeling that hold u down... pick up the peaces and move on... just like in the puzzle game....perseverence and practice are the source of experience. – Ngomu Franky

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