Focus On Others Quotes

#1. When we focus on others, our world expands.

Daniel Goleman

#2. It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

Jewel

#3. And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Martin Sheen

#4. Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it's about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

John C. Maxwell

#5. I will focus on taking care of myself and helping others. I will put more effort into planning for my future. I will make healthy lifestyle choices so I can feel good every day. These are the priorities that matter.

Susane Colasanti

#6. As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Dwight Yoakam

#7. We all have strengths and weaknesses. The best advice is to embrace, focus on, and nurture our strengths. Unless, of course, those strengths include exploiting the weaknesses of others. Then I suggest discovering new ones.

Charles F. Glassman

#8. Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

Kevin Eikenberry

#9. We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

#10. Where there is love, there will be an abundance of success and love. However, love is something within us. So focus on your own self-worthiness, and love will begin to blossom within you, around you, for you and for others in your life.

Vishwas Chavan

#11. All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships.

Stephen R. Covey

#12. Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

Toks Olagundoye

#13. When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. Every girl will come with pros and cons. Some people will choose to focus on the worst in some of your options and the best in others, and it will make no sense to you why they seem so narrow minded. But I'm here for you, whatever your choice.

Kiera Cass

#15. Listen to others very carefully. Shut your inner noise and focus on verbal and non verbal cues.

Abhishek Ratna

#16. If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

Dalai Lama

#17. Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

Ravi Teja

#18. If you focus on the flaws of others it takes away from the improvements that you may need to make.

Christofer Drew

#19. Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.

M. Russell Ballard

#20. I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

Tariq Ramadan

#21. If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.

Henry B. Eyring

#22. We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.

Avril Lavigne

#23. There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines ... about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's much more important for us to be good, honest people that try to help others and live the best life we can. That's where you get your satisfaction ultimately.

Laura Evans

#24. focus less on the impression you're making on others and more on the impression you're making on yourself.

Amy Cuddy

#25. Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.

Yaron Brook

#26. Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others.

Wayne W. Dyer

#27. If you focus too much on what others say about you, you lose sight of what you ought to be thinking about yourself.

Heather Lyons

#28. Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.

Ransom Riggs

#29. Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Daniel Goleman

#30. The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish.

David Michie

#31. Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.

Kevin Malarkey

#32. If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

Victoria Osteen

#33. My life's goal is not trying to prove others wrong. My sole focus is on proving myself right."
~Elissa Gabrielle

Elissa Gabrielle

#34. When you stop complaining about others for not helping you and focus on your efforts; there's no stopping you.

Udai Yadla

#35. There's no narrative to your life, no arc, no reward for achieving all of the things you want. That kind of thinking is a recipe for a you-centric world view and is a very lonely road. Focus instead on the role you play in the stories of others..

Justin McElroy

#36. If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

Ian Somerhalder

#37. The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

Thomas Hughes

#38. If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

John C. Maxwell

#39. The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#40. There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.

Tia Mowry

#41. I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. ( ... ) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others. (p. 257).

Elif Shafak

#42. The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#43. Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.

James E. Faust

#44. People submit too
easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever
they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they
are giving up, never what they are about to gain

Chris Murray

#45. You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others.

Debasish Mridha

#46. This individual must focus on idealistic callings and activities that uplift others, cultivating faith and spirituality. This is the Mystic, Hermit, Visionary, and Intuitive.

Celeste Teal

#47. Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon.

Steven Redhead

#48. Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want.
When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#49. The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.

Bryant McGill

#50. I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Lea Michele

#51. The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Robin Sharma

#52. As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment

Francis Chan

#53. The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others.

Peter F. Drucker

#54. The more we are focused on controlling and changing others, the more unmanageable our life becomes. The more we focus on living our own life, the more we have a life to live, and the more manageable our life will become.

Melody Beattie

#55. Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don't allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.

Tavis Smiley

#56. The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

Billy Graham

#57. Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.

Brendon Burchard

#58. Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others.

Ron Kaufman

#59. Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren't & can't. You have to win; they don't necessarily have to lose for you!

Alok Mishra

#60. Our primary focus should be on what we do and how we feel, not what others do or think.

Sean Lysaght

#61. Find things you're passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.

Nick Jonas

#62. Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

Liane Holliday Willey

#63. Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

Kevin Smith

#64. Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.

Beverly Engel

#65. If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Victoria Osteen

#66. Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#67. I also use that centering process I mentioned as a way to focus my mind and connect it to my physical body. I feel that when we are aware of our physical bodies, we become more aware of how we exist on the earth and more considerate of others with whom we share the earth.

Amanda Schull

#68. Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.

Sabrina

#69. No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take them out on others. So let's focus on how to get your hat back.

Valerie Ormond

#70. When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for others. You actually start to become the person you thought you were pretending to be: a true leader!

Garrison Wynn

#71. Maybe the key for me to move forward wasn't to eliminate everything I was feeling; maybe all I needed to do was focus on the feeling that made all others seem small.

Kiera Cass

#72. Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

Adam Grant

#73. Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others.

Mensah Oteh

#74. If you need me, just focus on us and I'll be here. Despite what happened with others in the past, I will show up.

Melyssa Winchester

#75. May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.

Traci LaRussa

#76. Life in general you gotta believe in you ... you live your life for you, you do what you do for you, because the moment you start to live your life for others you'll lose yaself within that. Focus on what it is you want to have. Go get it.

Trey Songz

#77. To not judge is to be like a peach. We shrink our space by giving up controlling others. Instead, we focus on controlling ourselves. We set others free to be who they are.

John Kuypers

#78. Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world.

Rudy Ruettiger

#79. Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves

Herman Van Rompuy

#80. I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.

Paul Bloom

#81. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

S. Jay Olshansky

#82. It doesn't matter what others think. This is about YOU. Create a life that you genuinely love with your whole heart & start with yourself.

Brittany Burgunder

#83. It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

Bob Nelson

#84. When our motive for good works is to garner the praise of others, we trade the glory of God for the glory of men. Glorious Lord, forgive me for the times I have exchanged Your glory for the praise of others. Help me keep my focus on You and You alone, rather than on the admiration of others.

Ava Pennington

#85. Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.

Maddy Malhotra

#86. Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.

Chris Colfer

#87. Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you're really good at - and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don't try to do everything. You aren't the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.

Marc Ecko

#88. The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

Michael Korda

#89. Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.

Jane Powell

#90. Dating with no regrets means keeping your focus on Jesus, so that no matter what happens in your relationships with others, your relationship with God remains intact.

Debra Fileta