Jonathan Scott Quotes

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something that you want-even though you miss it-than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it, no matter what that objective may be.

My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.

Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.

Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

The only purpose of starting is to finish