Top 100 Focus Goals Quotes

#1. Focus on your own goals and how to achieve them. No one took your spot, there's room for all of us.

Amy Schumer

#2. Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#3. Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.

Liz Murray

#4. They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you will get to the top of the mountain, but in the moment you only need to focus on the next ledge.

Tami Hoag

#5. If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.

Les Brown

#6. He had a great general's ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. "You can abuse me, you can strike me," Rockefeller said, "so long as you let me have my own way.

Ron Chernow

#7. Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.

Tony Robbins

#8. Don't you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can't be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won't matter.

Toni Sorenson

#9. The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive

Ezra Taft Benson

#11. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Mark Cuban

#13. Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

Winifred Gallagher

#14. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.

Joe Torre

#15. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.

William Miller

#16. 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

#17. Time goes too slow for those who are bored, to quick for those who procrastinate. Too long for those without goals and too short for those without focus. But for the man or woman who lives a life pursuing purpose, timing is perfect, and their time is always now.

Dwaun S. Cox

#18. The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

Karen Salmansohn

#20. Difficulties & Challenges become our strength when we focus the goal.

Gaurav GRV Sharma

#21. For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

Steve Carell

#22. The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it's hard for anything to get in the way.

Ufuoma Apoki

#23. Everyone needs peace of mind, inner-happiness and joyful relationships but most people don't prioritize these. Do you set goals or invest in learning to achieve these?
If you focus only on career, social and financial goals then you will never be fulfilled or fully successful!

Maddy Malhotra

#24. If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

John C. Maxwell

#25. To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

Debasish Mridha

#26. If you lack the mental focus to stay with one activity for any length of time, you will never be able to achieve your goals,

Robin S. Sharma

#27. A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#28. Don't let quick wins distract your focus from long-term goals.

Sascha Bosio

#29. Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.

Daniel H. Pink

#30. Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. That is why goal setting is so vital to time management and developing focus.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#31. Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.

Chuck Norris

#32. Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.

Keshia Chante

#33. Aim deliberately at goal and stay focus to fulfill it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.

Lauren Lola

#35. Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Denis Waitley

#36. I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Venus Williams

#37. Focus on making yourself better, not thinking you are better.

Bohdi Sanders

#38. The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you're going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you're meant to take.

A.J. Darkholme

#39. Silence is one of the best ways to immediately reduce stress, while increasing your self-awareness and gaining the clarity that will allow you to maintain your focus on your goals, priorities, and what's most important for your life, each and every day.

Hal Elrod

#40. When the zone calls, you must listen.
You never know how long being in the zone lasts.
It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.

JohnA Passaro

#41. Have faith in your abilities and stay committed to your goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't take them where they want to go.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#43. People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Jill Konrath

#44. An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

Jack Canfield

#45. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

Steffi Graf

#47. Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#48. If you are not aware of your destination, you are likely to become used by someone in accordance with his purpose and to work for a person who knows his plans and goals

Sunday Adelaja

#49. Success comes to those who ignore all the negative comments around and focus on their goals.

Saru Singhal

#50. Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

John C. Maxwell

#51. It's alright to keep and open mind, but at a certain point - once you have thoroughly completed your homework - you have to learn how to stop and focus on intensely and passionately executing these goals step by step. You have to repel the distractions.

Injap Sia

#52. You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals.

Henry Sy

#53. Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

Tony Robbins

#54. If it is to BE today, it's totally UP TO me NOW. Time for SWIFT Actions, with Fierce Focus, on CLEAR Goals. Time for a Mindset Reset?

Tony Dovale

#55. Maintain a persistent focus of what you want

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Michael Jordan

#57. Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#58. Focus on your vision and God will help you and give you the power to overcome any fear

Sunday Adelaja

#59. You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#60. An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#61. I'm cancer-free today!
Cancer cannot keep up with my goals, enthusiasm, focus, passion, and determination. I will run you out of my body by not thinking about you, I will focus on what it will be like when you are gone.

Gregory Q. Cheek

#62. We all want a job or role that truly excites and engages us. This search requires both focus and flexibility, so I recommend adopting two concurrent goals: a long-term dream and an eighteen-month plan.

Sheryl Sandberg

#63. You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.

Eric C. Sinoway

#64. When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on. It's as if you're giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas, and creativity surrounding you.

Darren Hardy

#65. You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#66. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#67. Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals.

Audre Lorde

#68. I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

Woody Allen

#69. Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

Dan Millman

#70. Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

Srikumar Rao

#71. Once you know you are on the right path, you must stay focused and be prepared for the devil's attacks

Sunday Adelaja

#72. If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

Patrick Lussier

#73. With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words.

Auliq Ice

#74. Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

K.J. Kilton

#75. Because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

Chris Colfer

#76. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. All success comes down to this . . . action

Rob Liano

#78. I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

Graham Elliot

#79. If you aren't constantly focused on your goals, you can easily waste all of the time, energy and money you invest in pursuing them.

Rob Liano

#80. Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given objective with tremendous results.

Craig Groeschel

#81. Even if I never get out of Clover, even if I never get into Northwestern or write for the New Yorker, even if these are just delusions occupying my time, thank God they are, because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't life worth living.

Chris Colfer

#82. In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#83. Difficult but possible is the key. That's because more difficult goals cause you to, often unconsciously, increase your effort, focus, and commitment to the goal; persist longer; and make better use of the most effective strategies.

Heidi Grant Halvorson

#84. In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships.

Jessica Lahey

#85. You're more likely to slip up when you're trying to accomplish your goals by yourself. It may be that you don't have an outer support system in place to help you maintain focus and provide the external encouragement everyone needs.

Lauren Mackler

#86. Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.

Christopher Columbus

#87. Having a CORE main focus is the key to being able to stay determined. Most people only set small goals and when they accomplish them ... it's hard to stay on track as they are not trying to achieve anything else.

Scott Herman

#88. There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.

Roopleen

#89. In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life's Task.

Robert Greene

#90. Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .

Tawana Beecham

#91. Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

B. J. Fogg

#92. Whatever I 'align' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#93. 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

#94. Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.

Pat Croce

#95. I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.

John Fairclough

#96. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

Richard Carlson

#97. Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#98. Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#99. Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

Napoleon Hill

#100. To accomplish the best you can, first aim for the best you can't.

Moffat Machingura

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