Top 71 Self Training Quotes
#1. It is a melancholy fact that childhood, so short when compared with the average span of life, should exert such a strong and permanent influence on character that no amount of self-training afterwards can ever completely counter it.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
#2. My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.
Harry Houdini
#3. These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.
Alfred Korzybski
#4. With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
Georges St-Pierre
#5. Self-defenses mean self-defense, period. It leave nothing out.
Bohdi Sanders
#6. Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.
Reggie Watts
#7. Teaching a boy the discipline required for riding and training, as well as self-denial, put him on a road to the sort of self-fulfilment that he might never have dreamed about or have been able to achieve on his own. It gave him his first sense of possibility. The
Chris Froome
#8. People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?
Steve Largent
#9. I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.
Matt McGorry
#10. From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
Tom Chatfield
#11. What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions?
Ricci-Jane Adams
#13. This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.
John Viney
#14. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.
Edwin Booth
#15. [Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into ... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.
C.S. Lewis
#16. The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#18. lawyer by training, Kajevic had the same talent as Hitler, making his gargantuan self-importance a proxy for his country's and his rantings the voice of his people's long-suppressed rage.
Scott Turow
#19. Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd
Mark Rippetoe
#20. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.
Tony Dovale
#21. The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.
Humberto Maturana
#22. Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.
Mariel Hemingway
#23. To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
Edward Steichen
#24. I can't believe we just did this. I'm such an asshole, I said. Note to self, women don't really want to hear this after you just shared oral sex with them
J.D. Holmes
#26. Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
Holly Near
#27. I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.
Jade Hassoune
#28. A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.
Abhishek Ratna
#29. It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.
John Steinbeck
#30. We may not be able to change the reality but we can change how our minds see and store it.
Maddy Malhotra
#31. Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I've never seen a player in such good physical condition. He's a gladiator.
Jorge Valdano
#32. Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us
Sukant Ratnakar
#35. We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
Frank Herbert
#36. Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.
Mas Oyama
#37. I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
Emanuel Steward
#38. Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
Warren Farrell
#39. The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
John F. Kennedy
#40. To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.
Carroll Quigley
#41. Drug cartels have taken the driver's seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation
Oche Otorkpa
#42. It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
Hans Hofmann
#43. It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.
Alexander Herzen
#44. By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.
Herbert A. Simon
#45. When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you'll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You'll be going against the stream. You'll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.
John De Ruiter
#46. Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency.
Arthur C. Clarke
#47. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
#48. My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.
Shoshin Nagamine
#51. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
Yves Chauvin
#53. There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.
Cathy Guisewite
#54. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.
Toru Iwatani
#55. Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
Alfred Korzybski
#56. To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.
Stephen Russell
#57. Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.
Steve Ilg
#58. That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.
Will Self
#59. There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.
Kano Jigoro
#60. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
#61. I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
Alanis Morissette
#62. Marine training is essentially a psychological battle against the instinct for self-preservation.
Nathaniel Fick
#63. The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.
Maria Montessori
#64. If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
Richard Rohr
#65. It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.
Max Stirner
#66. The earth is round for a reason. Your minimum effort starts you at the top of the world; your maximum effort keeps you there.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#67. On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.
Akira Toriyama
#68. Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.
Henna Inam
#69. Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#70. I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.
Charlie Davies
#71. I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.
Audie Murphy
