These practice quotes will inspire you. Practice, the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging practice quotes, practice sayings, and practice proverbs.
Inspirational Practice Quotes
- “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.” ~ Sparky Anderson
- “Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” ~ Vince Lombardi
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“Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “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
- “Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.” ~ Jack Canfield
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“Do more than believe practice.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.” ~ Hamza Yusuf
- “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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“Perfect practice makes perfect.” ~ Twyla Tharp
- “When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.” ~ Bill Bradley
- “They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Practice makes perfect.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?” ~ Kurt Cobain
- “I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.” ~ Kenny G
- “Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.” ~ Edgar Alwin Payne
- “The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.” ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate yourself. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That’s what I had to do, I had to do for self.” ~ Tupac Shakur
- “Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.” ~ Theodora Goss
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“Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.” ~ Periander
- “The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.” ~ Ed Sheeran
- “School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?” ~ Billie Joe Armstrong
- “It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.” ~ David Richo
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“Practice makes perfect – the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If practice makes perfect, and no one’s perfect, then why practice?” ~ Billy Corgan
- “Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you’ll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.” ~ Lloyd Alexander
- “Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.” ~ Daniel Coyle
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“I practice more than ever … mostly scales and arpeggios … and anything I can’t do.” ~ Julian Bream
- “The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.” ~ Lauren Tarshis
- “Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.” ~ Thom Mayne , Practice quotes discipline
- “My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It’s just like anything else, practice makes perfect.” ~ James Lafferty
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“To sum up: it’s time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.” ~ Daniel Coyle
- “When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.” ~ Steven Wright
- “My best film is always my next film. I couldn’t make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I’ve forgotten how I did it. I don’t believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.” ~ Christopher Doyle
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“Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.” ~ Rick Allen
- “We could fight the fuss till we get like friends,
Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends.
Even in our wildest moments, girl, I’m on it cause you’re worth it.
Practice makes perfect, so we fightin’ for a purpose.” ~ ASAP Rocky - “There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.” ~ Mario Batali
- “If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.” ~ Jascha Heifetz
