Top 200 Focus Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”

— John Wooden

102. “Never give up on what you really want to do”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

103. “None but ourselves can free our minds.”

— Bob Marley

104. “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

105. “If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

106. “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”

— Tony Robbins

107. “If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”

— Bob Proctor

108. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Stephen King

109. “Play the picture in your mind – focus on the end result.”

— Rhonda Byrne

110. “Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control...”

— Tim Tebow

111. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

— Barack Obama

112. “No excuses. Just do the work.”

— Shalane Flanagan

113. “Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.”

— T. Harv Eker

114. “You can do anything, but not everything.”

— David Allen

115. “Believe that you will succeed, and you will.”

— Dale Carnegie

116. “You become what you think about most of the time.”

— Brian Tracy

117. “The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?”

— Henry Ford

118. “If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”

— Biz Stone

119. “One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.”

— Jim Rohn

120. “Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

121. “Never settle for anything less than your best.”

— Brian Tracy

122. “There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”

— Michelle Obama

123. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

— Tony Robbins

124. “Focus on progress not perfection.”

— Bill Phillips

125. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”

— Will Rogers

126. “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”

— John Wooden

127. “Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”

— John Wooden

128. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

129. “Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

130. “K.I.S.S.”

— Keep It Simple, Stupid

131. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

132. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

— Oprah Winfrey

133. “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.”

— John Wooden

134. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

135. “Education is freedom.”

— Paulo Freire

136. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”

— Walt Disney

137. “I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.”

— Ayrton Senna

138. “If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.”

— Earl Nightingale

139. “The real achiever does one thing at a time.”

— Peter F. Drucker

140. “What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.”

— Robin S. Sharma

141. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

— Christian D. Larson

142. “Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.”

— Tony Horton

143. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

— Oprah Winfrey

144. “If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal.”

— Greg Plitt

145. “I am too busy for insecurities; it’s just a distraction. If I have any, I have ignored them for so long they have gone away.”

— Casey Neistat

146. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.”

— James Allen

147. “Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.”

— Demi Lovato

148. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

— John Wooden

149. “Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”

— Warren Buffett

150. “A good process produces good results.”

— Nick Saban