Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. — Paul J. Meyer
Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. — Willie Sutton
The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions. — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. — W. Clement Stone
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. — Charles Caleb Colton
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda
In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme. — Aliko Dangote
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish — George S. Clason
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. — Peter Drucker
Short Singleness Of Purpose Quotes
There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus. — Triple H
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose. — Bob Goff
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose — Leonardo da Vinci
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. — Michel de Montaigne
FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful — Robert Kiyosaki
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One. — Os Guinness
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains. — Steve Jobs
Singleness Of Purpose Image Quotes
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
What's Your Purpose Quotes
What is going to make you happy? Because let’s be honest, you know, dating apps are not making you happy… Being anti-woke isn’t making you happy. It’s making you miserable. So what is actually going to give you fulfilment and meaning and purpose in your life? — Konstantin Kisin
It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier. — Clarence Clemons
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life. You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. — Dan Buettner
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you. — Betty Sue Flowers
When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that. — Kendrick Lamar
If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point? — Rick Warren
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. — George Saunders
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life. — Francine Rivers
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. — P. J. O'Rourke
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. — Oriah Dreamer
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — Abraham Lincoln
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes. — Joseph Stalin
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
Absolutely every single one of my actions is intentional. Divine purpose. If your day is full of mindless action, you act without thought. — Andrew Tate
It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion. — John Piper
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress. — James Clear
With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be. — Selena
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. — Frederick Douglass
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. — Sigmund Freud
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will. — Ferdinand Foch
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations. — J. C. Watts
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. — Richard Holloway
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love? — Bram Stoker
One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in. — Tony Evans
Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. — Peter DeFazio
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. — Grenville Kleiser
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life. — John D. Rockefeller
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose. — Caroline Emelia Stephen
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. — James Allen
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. — Jimmy Wales
You can have anything you want — Jenifer Lewis
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose. — Caroline Emelia Stephen
I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man. — Bernard Berenson
Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene. — Paula Patton
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. — Hjalmar Schacht
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow. — Voltairine de Cleyre
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass. — Marcus Aurelius
Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but your still here, you’re still capable, powerful, you’re not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You’re still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. — Steve Maraboli
Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — Lance Armstrong
You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — Robert Collier
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck. — Grenville Kleiser
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. — Thomas Henry Huxley
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. — Bill Gates
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education. — C.E. Morgan
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve. — John Eliot
The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. — Amelie Nothomb
That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose. — John Dewey
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman... — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose. — Joseph Conrad
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