George S. Patton Quotes

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

I'm focused on what I'm doing and nothing can stop that.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I'm very passionate in life, and I'm very determined.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

If there's a goal, you can't stop me. I'll put my head down. I'll have tunnel vision and I'll go until I get it.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.