One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The greatest spiritual practice is to transform love into service.
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtueq gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
I never practice; I always play.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
In practice, life conceals its remarkable people until big events occur and reveal them.