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- Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974`
- The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The only real training for leadership is leadership.
- Anthony Jay
- On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
- Alvin Toffler
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Shopenhauer
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