Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Concentration

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.
Og Mandino (1923–96) American Self-Help Author

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Arnold Palmer (b.1929) American Sportsperson

Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
Og Mandino (1923–96) American Self-Help Author

Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life’s work.
Unknown

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that.
Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
Pliny the Younger (c.61–c.112 CE) Roman Senator, Writer

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator

The successful man is the average man, focused.
Unknown

It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
Chinese Proverb

To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

One cannot both feast and become rich.
African Proverb

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors (b.1952) American Tennis Player

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian

To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you’ll hit your target every time.
Bruce Jenner (b.1949) American Sportsperson

Successful minds work. like a gimlet: to a single point.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
Unknown

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara De Angelis (b.1951) American Self-Help Author

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
Stan Smith (b.1946) American Sportsperson

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American Businessperson

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
Og Mandino (1923–96) American Self-Help Author

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Richard Cecil

One arrow does not bring down two birds.
Turkish Proverb

There is time enough for every thing in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once ; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

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