Focus & Determination

Category Focus

Here are some quotes related to focus along with the authors’ names:

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” — George Lucas

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” — Roy T. Bennett

“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.” — Og Mandino

“Ignore the noise, focus on your work.” — Anonymous

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” — Zig Ziglar

“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 Waitley

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” — Paulo Coelho

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” — Jack Canfield

“Focus on the solution, not on the problem.” — Jim Rohn

“What you focus on expands; results follow focus.” — Marcus Buckingham

“Focus on your goal, not the how.” — Bob Proctor

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell

“Where your attention goes, your time goes.” — Idowu Koyenikan

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis

“Focus on simplicity… once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs

“What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.” — Robin Sharma

“Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.” — Steve Jobs

“You don’t get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.” — Mike Hawkins

“Our focus is our future, and what we focus on will multiply in our life.” — David DeNotaris

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee

“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” — Bodhi Sanders

“Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” — Anonymous

“Your reality is created by what you focus on and how you choose to interpret it.” — Jen Sincero

“Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.” — Michael Jordan

“Focus on your greater goal, your destiny.” — Robert Greene

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett

“Your attention has value. Don’t give it away.” — Anonymous

“Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.” — T. Harv Eker

“Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.” — Anonymous

Category Determination

Here are some quotes related to determination along with the authors’ names:

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” — Jesse Owens

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” — Vince Lombardi

“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” — Dan Gable

“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” — Les Brown

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Horace Lorimer

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry S. Truman

“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.” — Denis Waitley

“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.” — Bethany Hamilton

“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.” — Charles Simmons

“Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.” — Jeremy Irvine

“I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.” — Chuck Norris

“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.” — Bill Rancic

“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” — Victor Hugo

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” — Thomas A. Edison

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.” — Suzanne Collins

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paulo Coelho

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” — Ernest Hemingway

“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. I know I can.” — Watty Piper

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” — Jane Austen

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath

“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” — L.M. Montgomery

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” — Herman Melville

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.” — Barack Obama

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.