Access 45 of the best focus quotes today! Discover quotes by Edison, Michael Jordan, Emerson, Tony Robbins, Bill Gates (with great images too!) In today’s busy world being and staying focused is harder than ever. With text, social media, and email it can be hard to stay focused on anything. The more you can focus your energy, the more success you will achieve.
This series of focus quotes can increase your attention and help you reflect on what counts in your life. Through focusing more, we will strengthen our comprehension, pay attention to what is significant, evaluate easier, and become more successful with everything we do. You will keep out of life-changing trouble by keeping on making dumb mistakes.
It makes you waste less time making improvements which encourage you to invest more energy in achieving your objectives. Here are some motivational focus quotes to help you focus on what important in your life. Top 31 Inspiring quotes on focus and vocabulary.
Here are 35 of the best focus quotes I’ve collected over the years.
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- What focus is exactly
- How to become more focused
- How to improve your concentration skills
Focus Quotes
- Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no. Steve Jobs
- In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. Yuval Noah Harari
- Success demands singleness of purpose. Vince Lombardi
- If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions. Albert Einstein
- If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. David Allen
- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it; dream of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea; and leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda
- I think the ability is to singularly focus is related to the ability to lose yourself and be present, happy, and actually, ironically, more effective. Naval Ravikant
- To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction. Cal Newport (Deep Work)
- Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are. Bill Gates
- It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. Og Mandino
Inspirational quotes about focus for strength
1. “Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.” — Eric Schlosser
2. “Unless taught otherwise, children are the most selfish, oblivious little Philistines on the planet. They have no family, no job, no responsibilities, and nothing but time to think about their gluttonous, sticky selves. We should be teaching them to take some focus off of themselves and onto how they can best serve/treat others.” — Steven Crowder
3. “Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.” — Ja Rule
4. “I’m really excited to turn my obsessive-type focus on making the world a happier place.” — Pat McAfee
5. “A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities – New York, San Francisco – or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time – Detroit, Newark, Camden.” — Matthew Desmond
6. “A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.” — Richard Rogers
7. “My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they’ll be my main focus. I’d never put my career in front of my babies – it’d be a case of fitting jobs around them.” — Katy Perry
8. “One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don’t solve the right problem at the right time, that’s the end. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus.” — Reid Hoffman
9. “A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn’t outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.” — Thom Tillis
10. “Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action-adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.” — Jon Scieszka
Famous quotes on focus to inspire be yourself
11. “My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.” — Larry Fitzgerald
12. “People should accept being single because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.” — Lauren London
13. “We need to really focus on getting this digital equity across the board in all of our public school systems, for both girls and boys.” — Kimberly Bryant
14. “When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.” — Dan Schulman
15. “As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllable.” — Carli Lloyd
16. “My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It’s about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It’s about Washington and the army and the war. It’s the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.” — David McCullough
17. “I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.” — David Bailey
18. “As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income, and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.” — Tim Ferriss
19. “I started rapping at the age of 12. That’s when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued by learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.” — Ozuna
20. “I want to keep upgrading my routines and focus on cleaning them up and being consistent.” — Katelyn Ohashi
Inspiring Quotes about Focus That Change Your Life
21. “If you’re a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you’re an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it’s more understandable.” — Rick Ross
22. “I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is neck and endurance. I wear this ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.” — Lando Norris
23. “When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn’t really like me.” — Orlando Bloom
24. “The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There’s a different focus; there’s a different sound.” — Yelawolf
25. “I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.” — Virat Kohli
26. “My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.” — Virat Kohli
27. “Discipline, focus, endurance is what it takes to be the greatest at this sport.” — Jordan Burroughs
28. “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
Motivational Quotes About Focus And Sayings
29. “When writing for the page, the focus is on the design – how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.” — Rupi Kaur
30. “I’m noticing a new approach to art-making in the recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum’s ‘Younger Than Jesus’ last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I’m seeing it blossom and bear fruit at ‘Greater New York,’ MoMA P.S. 1’s twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.” — Jerry Saltz
31. “I think I have made a difference. I have meant a lot to my people. I have done well. They are proud of me. And that was the main focus. I was doing it for my people, the people who support me.” — Caster Semenya
