Mark Twain Quotes About Training

• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Training, Association

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Disappointment, Father, Believe

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.288, Univ of California Press

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Men, Training

• My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Land, Training

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.170, Mark Twain

• Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Inspirational Life, Fighting

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1923). “The Writings of Mark Twain”

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, College

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

• Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve
  whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different
  for each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Goal, Training

• Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Training, Opinion

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.143, Createspace Independent Pub

• There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

  Mark Twain

  Training, Training And Education

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