Quotes About Focus

When you are discouraged or caught up in procrastination, simply do the tiniest thing to move whatever you are working on forward.

Because the actions of your life are determined by your most dominant thought.

And so it will be with your life. There will be tough times—there are for everyone. There will be times of fear and trembling. There will be times of discouragement and disillusionment. Have courage, smile, keep your chin up, laugh often, be kind to yourself, stay focused, be gracious and appreciative, think happy thoughts, and carry on regardless.

You will never have more happiness than discipline…People are most fully alive when they embrace a life of discipline, it awakens us from our philosophical stupor.

You cannot succeed at anything unless you are willing and able to delay gratification...Resistance hates discipline. It hates self-control. Resistance abhors delayed gratification and any type of self-denial that makes your heart, mind, and soul strong.

Boredom is a manifestation of selfishness. It can only occur when we are overly focused on ourselves. It always means that we have set God and neighbor aside to focus exclusively on ourselves, and that is never a recipe for happiness.

If you don't know what you want form life, everything will appear either as an obstacle or a burden. But one of the greatest lessons of history is that the whole world gets out of the way for people who know what they want or where they are going. Be assure, if you don't know where you are going, you are lost.

If you only learn to master one moment in your life, learn to master the moment of decision.

Resistance loves keeping us busy with anything but the one thing that will most help us grow.

In the absence of discipline, man must content himself with superficialities and mediocrity.

And if you don't say no to the wrong things there will be no room in your life to say yes to the right things.

Remember - try to stay focused on progress, not perfection.

Everything should be embraced or rejected according to how it affects our essential purpose.

In a world where so little makes sense, understanding our essential purpose makes sense of everything. In a world of clutter and confusion, understanding our essential purpose brings a startling clarity to the moments of our everyday lives. In a world filled with experts and their contradictory theories, understanding our essential purpose helps us to listen once again to the quiet voice within.

Clarity emerges from silence, not meetings. You need the silence so you have something worth saying in the meetings.

Nobody will do their best work until they have lots of white space on their calendars.

The most important things are almost never urgent. That's why it's essential that we schedule them.

All interest in every other topic" seemed to be "eaten up" by the slavery question.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

The culture fills our heart and minds with spectacular dreams about hitting home runs, but life is about getting up every day and hitting a single.

Instead of turning your attention to the "target," simply stare attentively at the emotion itself. You will see that it cannot sustain itself and soon runs out of steam.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

Celui qui a pénétré le sens de la vie ne se donne plus de peine pour ce qui ne contribue pas à la vie.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.