Empowering training quotes will fuel your motivation and ignite your passion for learning. While training may be hard, thoughtful training quotes will stir your curiosity, challenge your mindset, and spark your determination. Tune in for more motivation and let your training journey shine.
Best Training Quotes
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. Epictetus
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. Veronica Roth
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. John Lubbock
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. Prince Caspian
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. Peter Drucker
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain
What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting. Frank Herbert
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. Confucius
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. Richard Buckminster Fuller
The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay. Henry Ford
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. Ann Voskamp
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Nelson Mandela
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place. Criss Jami
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got that or not. William Faulkner
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse. Ryan Blair
I work my hardest and she still kicks the crap out of me. Pittacus Lore
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. Joseph Pilates
It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity. Criss Jami
The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. Bobby Knight
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer no time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent among them he finds his stage. Criss Jami
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning. Anton Chekhov
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. Alan Armstrong
Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come. Dwayne Johnson
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. Orson Scott Card
Don’t decrease the goal. Increase the effort. Tom Coleman
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life. Friedrich Nietzsche
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali
The dogs brought it all back to, you know, to the human side. Luis Carlos Montalván
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field. Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t complain. Just work harder. Randy Pausch
I frowned as my fingers throbbed. Wait a sec. There’s a chance I can’t work with fire and you let me do that? How else am I going to figure out your limitations? What the hell!” I pulled my hand free, furious. That’s not cool, Blake. What’s next? Trying to stop a moving vehicle by standing in front of it, but whoops, I can’t do that and now I’m dead? Jennifer L. Armentrout
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. Derek Jeter
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world, we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self renunciation. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us that’s where it’s at. Jesse Owens
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they Darius! Alexander the Great
Be stronger than your strongest excuse. Be greater than your most negative voice. Alan Maiccon
People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation. And most importantly they aren’t human. Will Advise
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills
Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not depart’ Proverb. Santosh Avvannavar
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it. Confucius
So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. Charles Dickens
One Word fight. Anyone can do it when it feels good. When you’re hurting, that’s when it makes a difference, so you have to keep fighting. Erin Cafaro
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone. Rashedur Ryan Rahman
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. Muhammad Ali
Pain was their body’s way of telling them that they’d pushed themselves to their limits which was exactly where they were supposed to be. Richard Marcinko
I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men to dish it out without being able to take it the blind leading the blind into more blindness. Criss Jami
I’m like a duck calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath. Fred Shero
True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. John Paul Warren
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. Arnold Schwarzenegger
War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? Mike Norton
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, it is that we are powerful beyond measure. Marianne Williamson
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don’t enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they’re exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. Arthur Lydiard
Where my reason, imagination, or interest were not engaged, I would not or could not learn. Sir Winston Churchill
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It’s no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. Arthur Lydiard
When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. Terry Bradshaw
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie. Henry James
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. Plato
The parent is protector and trainer, but never the ultimate teacher. Every parent is responsible for teaching their kid basic moral conduct, manners, the difference between love and hate, and right from wrong. However, after maturity, the child must set off to seek knowledge on their own. Religion is never to be forced. And you cannot threaten your child with hell and tell them your religion is the only right way. There is no one right way. The many ways to the Creator are as varied as the colors of a rainbow. Suzy Kassem
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King
Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork. Cameron Conaway
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. Benjamin Franklin
Train, don’t strain. Arthur Lydiard
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically. J. Allen Boone
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. Galileo Galilei
For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is that he is able to rely on certain reflex actions which he himself has implanted in them. He will flatter himself at times on the grasp of animal psychology which has brought him the love of the dog and the purr of the cat; and on the strength of such assumptions he approaches the beasts of the jungle. The old tag about nature being an open book is just not true. What nature offers on a first examination may appear to be simple but it is never as simple as it appears. Hans Brick
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
Remember, without a goal, your stamina is useless no matter how you get trained. You may defend your integrity and attack your obstacles, but when you have no target in focus, you will score many zero number of goals. Israelmore Ayivor
An individual step in character training is to put the responsibility on the individual. Robert Baden Powell
Vague statements are interchangeable. Robert Mager
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle
Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we’re training him to kill the living? Robert Kirkman
Self education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov
I’m tired of being weak. Of depending on others to defend me. Sarah J. Maas
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. Richard Branson
As night fell, Yamamoto, aboard the huge battleship Yamato, steamed eastward at full speed into the night. Far ahead the destroyers went to flank speed to search for the US carriers. Lookouts, with the best night vision binoculars in the world, swept the night horizon where the very dark sky meets the black ocean. The faintest shape, the tiniest pinprick of light, would show there was something out there, like the superstructure of a ship over the horizon. There was nothing. Dale A. Jenkins
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. Warren Bennis
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training. Jackie Chan
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. Goethe
What I witnessed at the dangerous DeSoto Solar Farm went against my training as a Chartered Electrical Engineer. Steven Magee
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Frankin
In some cases, trying is better than doing because it indicates that you are attempting things hard enough to fail. Criss Jami
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
To be a genius you must be a madman for. Your art. Patricio Telman Chincocolo
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
Positive people like you all who spread positive energy achieve success in life. I have trained more than 10,000 students by now in my teaching experience of 12+ years. And I can tell this with conviction. Avijeet Das
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
As a Chartered Electrical Engineer working for one of the largest electrical utility company’s in the USA, I found I was working in an environment that my training told me was completely abnormal and dangerous! Steven Magee
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins
In every battle, it is not numbers and untaught bravery so much as skill and training that generally produce the victory. For we see no other explanation of the conquest of the world by the Roman People than their drill at arms, camp discipline and military expertise. No one is afraid to do what he is confident of having learned well. A small force which is highly trained in the conflicts of war is more apt to victory; a raw and untrained horde is always exposed to slaughter. Vegetius
Training sessions are vital to the learning process, but they are only one step in the learning process and this should never be forgotten. Ravinder Tulsiani
It is better to have a longer period of preparation and training for a shorter service, than shorter preparation for a longer service. Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
Storytelling is an important cognitive skill that helps us to understand concepts and apply logic. This is why I use Storytelling in my classes. You can make a session interesting by telling stories to your students and assisting them in their imagination and learning. Avijeet Das
If you convert your time into training, you will be wise. Sunday Adelaja
We see their lack of education as an advantage. It means no one taught them what to think or how. Vincent H. O’Neil
Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals. Lailah Gifty Akita
The understanding that some things are worth your life, some people are worth your life, is something we can’t teach. Vincent H. O’Neil
Training alone is rarely the answer to ensuring successful behavior change in the work environment. Ravinder Tulsiani
Sorrys are stories I do not have time for. Jordan G. Kobos
Disciplined training is a prerequisite for true artistic spontaneity. Ernest Cadorin
Every great leader is developed, trained, and shaped by the wilderness experience. This is a time of loneliness, insecurity, and trouble in an environment that is not supportive. Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
All training except the most basic either secures or disestablishes things as they are. John Taylor Gatto
If we feed them they will grow, if we train them they will know and if we trust them they will blow our minds. Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
Training is necessary for toughness. Lailah Gifty Akita
Self discipline is one of the most important and useful skills you can have. Discipline is the number one trait needed to create a happy mood, and healthy and meaningful life. Vishal D. Baraiya
No matter your goal or level, I highly recommend finding a compatible training partner and a coach. They will hold you accountable on days when your motivation is low. A coach will help you work through challenges and make adjustments to your training program. Shalane Flanagan
Everyone needs to have their own measure of what winning means to them. Ken Sayles
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser like focus. Bruce Lee
The line between being demanding and being demeaning is as wide as an ocean. Jennifer Fraser
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. Colin Powell
Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice. Robert Greene
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer
Without the momentum of a stern discipline, motivation is mostly a momentary, flighty emotion. For it works best under the supervision of discipline, but can serve as not only an ally but also an enemy because in anything that requires your self discipline whether going to church, going to classes, going to workouts, going through trainings, completing jobs, reading books, living well, eating healthily, studying, practicing something the more times you skip, the more relaxed and motivated you’ll become about skipping; and the next thing you know you’ve quit your fight altogether or, put in short, the more you skip, the more you’ll skip until you’ve quit. Maybe then you’ll see that motivation bears its fruits when watered by discipline, but it spoils when not. Criss Jami
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. Horatius
So, we hide, and we fight, and we hide, and we train, and we fight. Jennifer West
Training, doing something for myself, makes me happier and more appreciative of the time I have with my son. Being a runner makes me a better mother, and being a mother makes my running better. Kara Goucher
Flexibility, like all the Thoughtfully Fit practices, is something you need to work on to improve. Start simple, such as with the outrageous dresser at the parent-teacher meeting or the glacially slow cashier at the convenience store. Find the places where things are none of your business and affect you the least, and use those as your training ground. You’ll be building your Flexibility muscles, so they’ll be ready in more challenging circumstances. Darcy Luoma
Former Olympian distance runner Lynn Jennings shared that her best races were ones in which she wanted to quit halfway through. Why? Because she was out on the edge, pushing herself. The result was championship level performances. Ken Sayles
There are many promises in the word of God to get you through the storms of life. Just like any pilot gets trained to fly with their instruments and trust their instruments when they cannot see anything out of the airplane window, likewise we need to trust the promises of God and not rely on our feelings, emotions or instincts when in a storm of doubt, fear, worry or discouragement. Paddick Van Zyl
Capacity building is necessary for development. Lailah Gifty Akita
Take a few minutes out of your schedule every now and then and remind yourself why you can achieve your goals. Make sure that your brain is getting enough training in seeing you and your business as a success and as a winner and not as a failure. Pooja Agnihotri
If my eyes show me what all my training assures me is impossible, I can only conclude that my eyes deceive me. W. Somerset Maugham
Our training grounds rarely resemble the place God is taking us to in life. What you need to settle in your heart is this your experiences today will help you with your future. Olawale Daniel
You have before you the beginnings of an amazing opportunity to explore this transformation within yourself, your entire being, physically, mentally and spiritually, monitor its progress and expand on it, and always continue to believe and trust in yourself. Realize that high intensity interval training will be as hard as you make it, so make sure it counts, in the end it will be extremely rewarding. Use this to your advantage. May you achieve what you desire for yourself and the goals you set, and may the world open up to you the eventualities you seek. Paul W. Matthews
Train your mind to adjust in every possible situation you can think of, and then train your mind some more. Sarvesh Jain
My mind was learning to work in different ways, becoming stronger. It felt the same way your body feels after a day of splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost godlike. I could feel my mind starting to awaken. Patrick Rothfuss
