Top 200 Practice Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”

— Louise Hay

152. “Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

153. “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.”

— Rhonda Byrne

154. “Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

155. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

— Richard Bach

156. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

157. “There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

158. “My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”

— Thomas A. Edison

159. “The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.”

— Anonymous

160. “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”

— Michael Jordan

161. “Nothing will train you better as a writer than working on your next book.”

— Brandon Sanderson

162. “See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

163. “Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?”

— Nhat Hanh

164. “Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.”

— T.D. Jakes

165. “When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.”

— Robert Greene

166. “By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

167. “Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.”

— Les Brown

168. “Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there’s feedback.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

169. “To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

170. “Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.”

— Nick Saban

171. “Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.”

— Pat Summitt

172. “Never quit. Never give up.”

— Gabby Douglas

173. “Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguise. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into joy. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into joy!”

— Rhonda Byrne

174. “Don’t try to analyze karma because you cannot fathom the depth of karma. Just do your duty and keep moving ahead with love and prayer in your heart.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

175. “Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

176. “Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

177. “What I’m doing right now, I’m chasing perfection... and if I don’t get it, I’m going to get this close.”

— Kobe Bryant

178. “Mind is there, in front of you. Don’t log in.”

— Mooji

179. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

180. “My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.”

— Louise Hay

181. “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

182. “Practice makes the master.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

183. “Don’t worry about getting it right. Just get it started.”

— Marie Forleo

184. “Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.”

— Eckhart Tolle

185. “Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

186. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

187. “Love all, serve all, feed all.”

— Neem Karoli Baba

188. “All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”

— Ram Dass

189. “If you can’t meditate in a boiler room, you can’t meditate.”

— Alan Watts

190. “To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.”

— Pema Chödrön

191. “Practice moderation in all things except love.”

— Gary Zukav

192. “SORE TODAY, STRONG TOMORROW.”

— Anonymous

193. “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

194. “Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”

— Ram Dass

195. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.”

— Lou Holtz

196. “There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.”

— Oliver Sacks

197. “The only way to do it is to do it.”

— Merce Cunningham

198. “Don’t whine, complain, or make excuses.”

— John Wooden

199. “The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

200. “When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’”

— Stephen King