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“If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.”

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Ralph Marston, born on February 16, 1907, and died on December 7, 1967, was a renowned football player. His exceptional performance and leadership in football made him a legend of his time. more

“Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.”

Moments Joy Suffering Values Felt Pleasure Effort Sacrifice Discipline Mark Oneself Profit Triumph Peculiar Amusement Deprived Indefinable

Author:Alexis Carrel

“I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.”

Knows Kind Would Be Causes Audience Rocks Band Snow Alternatives Hopeless Signing Rock Bands

Author:Simon Cowell

“Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.”

Social Military Discipline Perfection Servitude Military Discipline

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.”

Wish Discipline Activity Limits Latter Confined

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.”

Mind Influence Discipline Impervious

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.”

Men Life Is Study Achieve Fields Greatness Discipline Prove Men And Women Chosen Self Discipline Outstanding

Author:Brian Tracy

“The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”

Wells Doe Discipline Very Good Self Discipline Competent

Author:Brian Tracy

“Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.”

Way Persons Long Dream Type Discipline Happenings Victim Structure Athlete Your Dreams Dependent Flawed Pursued Participants Administrators

Author:Cecile Reynaud

“Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.”

Knows Looks Moments Running Pain Enjoy Produce Discipline Fruit Excuse Despise Agony Spares

Book:How to Handle Adversity

Source: How to Handle Adversity

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