Browsing Topic Best Practice Quotes

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

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

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

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

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

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

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

If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice – continuous effort.

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

Compassion is not a virtue; it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have, and it’s something we choose to practice.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer…education as the practice of freedom…. education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

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.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.

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.

Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

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

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.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

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.

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

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

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.

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.