Quotes about Focus

Death tends to change people's focus and priorities—at least for a time. After the war deaths of several Bonhoeffer cousins, the younger members of the family would often lie in bed at night and talk about death and eternity. Do you spend much time thinking about eternity? Should a person concentrate on life after death, or is it better to keep one's focus solely on this life and what can be accomplished now?

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

The practice of the presence of the Lord begins when Jesus becomes more real to us than our problems, our families, our troubles, and even more real than life itself. At that moment, it is all about Jesus.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.