Practiced Quotes
374 quotes by 327 authors
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With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
— Henry B. Eyring
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Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive…
— Henri Nouwen
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having…
— John Irving
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From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and…
— Arthur Golden
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
— Barbara Tuchman
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Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced.…
— Barack Obama
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It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
— Thomas Jefferson
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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
— John Steinbeck
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A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
— Julius Lester
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The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
— David Rockefeller
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When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle…
— Kent Nerburn
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What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over…
— Catherine Anderson
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Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that…
— David Gemmell
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It…
— Jim Rohn
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The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself…
— Hermann Hesse
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You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced…
— Lois Lowry
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