• Categories
  • Practice Quotes   227
  • If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Practice Quotes , Data Quotes
  • If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Order Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • ... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Practice Quotes , Effort Quotes
  • Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Essence Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Practice Quotes , Ideas Quotes