"The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour."
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"Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training."
"To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition."
"Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power"
"This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world."
"My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else."
"Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings."
"Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many."
"Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day."
"Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation."
"Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America"
"I have no formal culinary training, right."
"No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable."
"Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers."
"It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training."
"Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go."
"…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation."
"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."
"You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better."
"My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward."