Top 200 Practice Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.”

— Arnold Palmer

102. “The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.”

— William Osler

103. “Do your practice and all is coming.”

— K. Pattabhi Jois

104. “Do all things with love.”

— Og Mandino

105. “You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

— Taylor Swift

106. “Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!”

— Paula White

107. “Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”

— Confucius

108. “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

109. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

— Michelangelo

110. “Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

111. “The best way to do it, is to do it!”

— Amelia Earhart

112. “Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

— William Arthur Ward

113. “I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.”

— Michael Phelps

114. “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

— Ray Bradbury

115. “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

116. “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

117. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”

— Pat Riley

118. “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

— Henry Ford

119. “Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

— Robert Greene

120. “Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

121. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

122. “Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

— Brian Tracy

123. “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”

— Rumi

124. “We are what we think.”

— Buddha

125. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

126. “Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.”

— Henry Rollins

127. “Today is the most important day of our lives.”

— Nhat Hanh

128. “Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.”

— Alan Turing

129. “Early is on time and on time is late.”

— Bo Schembechler

130. “I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.”

— Will Smith

131. “There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”

— Pelé

132. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

133. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

— Anton Chekhov

134. “Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”

— Ram Dass

135. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.”

— Thomas A. Edison

136. “What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?”

— Carol S. Dweck

137. “Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

138. “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

139. “If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.”

— Ajahn Chah

140. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”

— Sivananda

141. “In everything give thanks.”

— Paul the Apostle

142. “One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

143. “It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.”

— Louise Hay

144. “Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.”

— John C. Maxwell

145. “Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life...”

— Milarepa

146. “I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.”

— Og Mandino

147. “You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.”

— Kobe Bryant

148. “I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

149. “Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive, persistent and intelligent practice.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

150. “If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.”

— Mark Spitz