What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Stillness is training for action.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.
The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.
Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
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