Quotes About Focus

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.