Quotes about Focus
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
— Lou Holtz
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
— Publilius Syrus
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.
— DL Moody
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
— Cicero
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
— Thomas a Kempis
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
— David Starr Jordan
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.
— Napoleon Hill