Skip to content Skip to footer

Stay Focused Quotes

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Discover these quotes:

[table “112” could not be loaded /]

A vision keeps the Wealthy Soul focused on the path and not on the boulders.

Michael Norwood

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

Nido Qubein

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980’s and 1990’s we must focus on the health of the goose.

Paul Tsongas

America is the greatest country in the world. You can be anything you want to be within the laws of God and man. You can make your dreams come true if you work hard, stay focused on your goal, and give back to the community that supports you.

R. David Thomas

Don’t focus on the days when you failed. Focus on all of the days when you won. Keep a chart, monitor your successes, and don’t give up!

Robert Butterworth

You can’t think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I’ve been acting for 16 years. I’ve done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there’s maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

Robert Patrick

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Sidney Madweb

By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered in the task of creating effective, useful, and peaceful lives-for ourselves, and for our posterity.

Stephen R. Covey

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Andrea Corr

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Watley

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self’s actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl

Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.

Edward de Bono

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

Erik Nupponen

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

Gary Ryan Blair

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

My ego is controlled enough that I don’t have to be the focus.

Herbie Mann

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Jack Nicklaus

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

James Welch

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

Jodi Rell

When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.

Lee Haney

The more prepared I am, the more I’ll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Marilu Henner

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

Mario Vazquez

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That’s where my heart lies.

Mark Burnett

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Tracy

Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

Chris Patterson

Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Wilferd A. Peterson

Most people focus on things that money can buy. I prefer to focus on things that money cannot buy.

Lorrin L. Lee

Your results are the product of either personal focus or personal distractions. The choice is yours.

John Di Lemme

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

T. Harv Eker

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

William Shakespeare

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Inspiring Alley© 2024. All Rights Reserved.