Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.

Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.

Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I’m more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice – which is really hard – is in those moments where we’re being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God’s sovereignty.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.