Focus Quotes

If you catch yourself doing too much, these Focus Quotes might help to get you focused like a laser again:

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -Harry Emerson Fosdick

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. -Brian Tracy

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun’s rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains. -Jeffrey Pfeffer

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. -Alexander Graham Bell

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William James

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. -Richard Cecil

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. -Nido Qubein

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.-Barbara De Angelis

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie

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Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. -David Frost

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives -Tony Robbins

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. -Wayne Calloway

Presence is more than just being there. -Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990)

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. -Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. -Jack Dixon

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. -Jimmy Connors

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. -Paul J. Meyer

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast; you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -Eddie Cantor (1892-1964)

The future must be seen in terms of what a person can do to contribute something, to make something better, to make it go where he believes with all his being it ought to go. -Frederick R. Kappel

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. -Tony Robbins

If you chase two hares at the same time, you will catch neither of them. -Ukrainian Proverb

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can’t do and how there’s not enough time in which to do it, isn’t that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that’s what I get. You see, I recognize that it’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it. -W. Mitchell

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. -Sydney Smiles

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. -Anthony Robbins

To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you’ll hit your target every time. -Bruce Jenner

Don’t dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything. -Confucius (BC551-479)

Sometimes we get wrapped up in way too many things in life. 

Our very happiness and success depend on being able to weed out the non-essentials and focus on a few key aspects of life. 

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