If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

The most excellent and divine counsel the best and most profitable advertisement of all others but the least practiced is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo I did sports jujitsu and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word when duly practiced.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus no appointment of time and place is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night whenever the time and inclination comes that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow health or illness.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced like the violin.

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

My grandfather along with Carnegie was a pioneer in philanthropy which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Its attitude which it has preached and practiced is skepticism. Now it finds the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet how amazing is it nothing is less practiced?