Quotes about Focus

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work.

The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.

Make a decision today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the "if only's" from your life.

The more you discipline yourself to persist on a major task, the more you like and respect yourself, and the higher is your self-esteem.

Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.