Top 200 Practice Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.”

— T. Harv Eker

52. “Work with integrity and succeed with integrity.”

— Abdul Kalam

53. “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

— Bob Ross

54. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

— Nhat Hanh

55. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”

— Bertrand Russell

56. “I’m chasing perfection.”

— Kobe Bryant

57. “Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.”

— Ajahn Chah

58. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

59. “Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.”

— Brené Brown

60. “Compassion is a verb.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

61. “To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.”

— Bruce Lee

62. “Caring is the essence of nursing.”

— Jean Watson

63. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

64. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

65. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. “Repetition is the key to real learning.”

— Jack Canfield

67. “Work until your brain forgets and your body remembers.”

— Anonymous

68. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

— Andy Warhol

69. “Don’t make training easy. Make it harder so that you will get better.”

— Manny Pacquiao

70. “Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.”

— Buddha

71. “The way is in training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

72. “Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”

— Linus Torvalds

73. “Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.”

— K. Anders Ericsson

74. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

75. “Yoga empowers you to feel the way you want to feel at any time, instead of being a victim of your own feelings. It makes you independent.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

76. “You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.”

— Jim Rohn

77. “May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

— Buddha

78. “Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.”

— John Kessel

79. “Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.”

— Ray Lewis

80. “People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.”

— Tony Robbins

81. “Meditation makes you sharper, happier, and intuitive. Don’t you want intuition? Don’t you want the right thought to come to you at the right time?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

82. “You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

83. “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

84. “So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.”

— Eckhart Tolle

85. “Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.”

— Dale Carnegie

86. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

87. “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.”

— Derek Jeter

88. “A runner doesn’t just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Kobe Bryant

90. “I accept myself unconditionally right now.”

— Louise Hay

91. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

— William Edward Hickson

92. “Everybody shut up. Let us work.”

— Kobe Bryant

93. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

— Nick Saban

94. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

95. “Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by war. Our problems are solved by loving kindness, by gentleness, by joy.”

— Buddha

96. “Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.”

— Brian Tracy

97. “Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

98. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

99. “As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!”

— Louise Hay

100. “Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.”

— Bo Schembechler