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practise what you preach. phrase. If you say that someone practises what they preach, you mean that they behave in the way that they encourage other people to behave in.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. The more colloquial, less proverbial phrase than 'practice what you preach', 'walk the talk', draws its definition from the straightforward phrasing in The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. Like so many statements, the origin of the idiom 'practice what you preach' is the Bible. The saying is found in Matthew 23:3 and reads thusly: “So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.” Practice what you preach. Prov. Cliché You yourself should do the things you advise other people to do. Dad always told us we should only watch an hour of television every day, but we all knew he didn't practice what he preached.
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Practice what you preach is a very true but difficult to accept statement.It is very easy to preach others, but most difficult to practice.
One can set examples to others, but when it comes for their case, they may simply change the statement and fix it according to their own desires and wishes.