Top 200 Focus Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I pursue this dream and carry on. I don’t dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.”

— Conor McGregor

52. “Do more of what works.”

— Stay Focused

53. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is how great spiritual giants are produced.”

— Swami Vivekananda

54. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

55. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”

— David Goggins

56. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

57. “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

— Gary W. Keller

58. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”

— Tim Ferriss

59. “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

— Steve Jobs

60. “Confine yourself to the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius

61. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

62. “Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.”

— Steve Jobs

63. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

64. “To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.”

— Cal Newport

65. “Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”

— Nhat Hanh

66. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”

— Kevin Ngo

67. “Focusing is about saying No.”

— Steve Jobs

68. “Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.”

— Jack Ma

69. “It’s not over until you win.”

— Les Brown

70. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

— Josh James

71. “There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.”

— Conor McGregor

72. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

73. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

— Bruce Lee

74. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

75. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

76. “Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”

— Robert Collier

77. “Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

— Bruce Lee

78. “There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.”

— Swami Vivekananda

79. “Without a goal, you can’t score.”

— Casey Neistat

80. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

81. “Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”

— Tony Robbins

82. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

83. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

84. “If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.”

— Michael Jordan

85. “We become what we think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

86. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

87. “Remember why you started, remember where you’re headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.”

— Ralph Marston

88. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

— Pelé

89. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

90. “Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.”

— Eric Thomas

91. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

92. “Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary W. Keller

93. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

94. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

95. “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

— William H. Johnsen

96. “Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”

— Swami Vivekananda

97. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

— Stephen R. Covey

98. “When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.”

— Les Brown

99. “Do nothing that is of no use.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

100. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas