Staying focused in life is important. The secret to a balanced life is instruction. When you have a common aim, all the acts will be guided in one direction. Yet if you don’t know where to go, you walk about unintentionally. At the same time, how long we operate is sometimes not so important, but how effectively we utilize our working hours. When we devote the utmost interest and sustain a high degree of focus, we will make greater use of the usable hours of the day. Nonetheless, we are less likely to do anything in limited time if we encourage threats to draw our attention. Staying positive centered in life is key. Here are about 42 inspiring focus quotes to help your motivation on what counts in your life.
Inspiring quotes on focus and words of encouragement
1. “I’m sort of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they’re unhappy with what they’re doing, or not achieving things – when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them because they’re worthy. I like to wake up and feel I’ve done no wrong. I like that feeling.” — John Lydon
2. “I think there is a certain charm to the hand-drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it’s so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.” — Matt Groening
3. “Anthony Mackie in ‘The Hurt Locker’ is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.” — Denis Leary
4. “By adding support for eldercare, spousal care, and children beyond the birth stage, Deloitte’s family leave program provides our people with the time they need to focus on their families in important times of need.” — Cathy Engelbert
5. “When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.” — Paul J. Meyer
6. “We aren’t handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people’s abilities. I can’t be on ‘American Idol,’ but there are all kinds of stuff I can do.” — Marlee Matlin
7. “NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.” — Buzz Aldrin
8. “I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.” — LL Cool J
9. “When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go!” — Gisele Bundchen
10. “My goal, in the beginning, was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in the business, then I can build an empire.” — Nicki Minaj
Greatest quotes about focus and sayings that will boost your concentration
11. “Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.” — DMX
12. “What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.” — Ted Cruz
13. “I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It’s usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of bodyweight stuff.” — Cole Sprouse
14. “If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.” — Brian Chesky
15. “The thing with focus is that it’s not this thing you aspire to, like, ‘Oh, on Monday I’m going to be focused.’ It’s every single minute: ‘Why are we talking about this when we’re supposed to be talking about this?’” — Jonathan Ive
16. “Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don’t do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.” — Bethany Hamilton
17. “We wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.” — Phil Knight
18. “My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.” — Lindsey Vonn
19. “Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.” — Edith Stein
20. “Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist, I totally understand. But it meant that my many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story. I’m super grateful that it happened, but it left me feeling like I never got to be a full human in the experience.” — Maggie Rogers
Inspirational quotes about focus and positive sayings
21. “I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.” — Kristin Armstrong
22. “If you want to be successful when you play, you have to be free in your mind, and that happens if you know that everything is taken care of – you just focus on the football.” — Sadio Mane
23. “I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we also focus on what their mindset is, and they learn to recognize when they are in more of a fixed mindset because we’re all a mixture.” — Carol S. Dweck
24. “When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.” — Mark Manson
25. “Usually, when we go out, it’s because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.” — Chris Squire
26. “My father is a very hardworking guy, and that’s his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.” — Donald Trump, Jr.
27. “As an actor, I’m always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I’m always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people’s lives and how they intertwine.” — Jodie Foster
28. “Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.” — Johannes Kepler
29. “There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire… You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don’t make someone’s butt look great, they’re not going to buy them.” — Tom Ford
30. “When writing, I’m not thinking about war, even if I’m writing about it. I’m thinking about sentences, rhythm, and story. So the focus, when I’m working, even if it’s on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It’s in the story.” — Tim O’Brien
Inspiring quotes on focus and words of encouragement
31. “It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.” — Theresa May
32. “In snowboarding, I’ve always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.” — Amy Purdy
33. “I try to weigh out the dark and the light. They were both very real aspects of my Dad. To me, the good and the healing and the light outweigh the dark so much, and that’s why I focus on the good.” — John Carter Cash
34. “We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.” — Grover Norquist
35. “I have no doubt that if we act with proper focus, we can protect our borders, our sovereignty, and our citizens, all while remaining true to America’s noblest legacies.” — Nikki Haley
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36. “I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.” — Gary Oldman
37. “For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars and so forth, but we shouldn’t focus too much on the bad.” — Yuval Noah Harari
Staying positive quotes about focus for inspiring encouragement
38. “My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus – there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.” — David Duchovny
39. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis
40. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell
41. “Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” — Jack Canfield
42. “I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.” — Zig Ziglar
