Bob Goff Quotes

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

I have confidence in my ability, and I try to isolate myself from everything going on around me.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

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.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.

Your problems are never bigger than your purpose.

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.

Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.