Quotes About Focus

Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

No more does one who is on a journey have to think at every step of his destination.

news of all this reached [John], but he said that he did not care about the child, since he still had the anvils and the hammers to forge even finer ones'.

Concentration, lovingkindness, and peace. That is all." Imagine being a person

One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder--a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Work alone is noble.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Contemplation and self-indulgence do not mix.

concern for honor is devastating for prayer.122

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill's life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention