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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary Wollstonecraft