George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth."
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Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory."
Pele
Professional Footballer
"There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society"
George Ryan
Politician
"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."
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"For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction."
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"I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."
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"After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake."
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"Books are the training weights of the mind."
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"No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training"
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"We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain."
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"In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information."
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"First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare."
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"If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?"
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"The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience."
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"Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger."
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"If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control."
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"One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so."
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"Confidence comes from discipline and training."
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"For me a day without training is like a day without eating."
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"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad."
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"Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create."
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"The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort."
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"If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?"
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