Vision Quotes

Most popular vision quotes

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift quote.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

self-deception

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

imagination

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. - Warren Buffett quote.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

business leadership management

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh quote.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

confidence leadership

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. - Wayne Gretzky quote.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe. - Thomas Edison quote.
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense. - Napoleon quote.
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
Necessity can set me helpless on my back but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox quote.
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell. - Austin O'Malley quote.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.

biblical proverbs

You must scale the mountain if you would view the plain.
— Chinese proverb

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What's the use of running if you're not on the right road?
— German proverb

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He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. - James Allen quote.
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

aspiration

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.  But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling. - D. H. Lawrence quote.
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.  But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

be yourself authenticity

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. - George Eliot quote.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

awareness

A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life. - Sam Harris quote.
A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.
Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

leverage beliefs

The capacity to create a compelling vision and translate it into action and sustain it. - Warren Bennis quote.
The capacity to create a compelling vision and translate it into action and sustain it.

leadership

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter Drucker quote.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Peter Drucker Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Challenges

leadership

The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision.  It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.  You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh quote.
The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision.  It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.  You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

leadership

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer quote.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

leadership

Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. - James Allen quote.
Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel quote.
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
With a vision, the executive provides the all-important bridge from the present to the future of the organization. - Warren Bennis quote.
With a vision, the executive provides the all-important bridge from the present to the future of the organization.
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. - Robertson Davies quote.
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
The vision must be followed by the venture.  It is not enough to stare up the steps—we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner Vance Havner, Journey from Jugtown: A Biography
Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill quote.
Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that vision.
Our visions are essential to create that which has never been, and we must each learn to use all of who we are to achieve those visions. - Audre Lorde quote.
Our visions are essential to create that which has never been, and we must each learn to use all of who we are to achieve those visions.
Audre Lorde Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters
Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls. - Henry Miller quote.
Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls.
To be obsessed with some vision and to have the continuous opportunity of working to realize that vision could be looked upon as God's greatest gift to anyone. - Henry Moore quote.
To be obsessed with some vision and to have the continuous opportunity of working to realize that vision could be looked upon as God's greatest gift to anyone.
The engineering is secondary to the vision. - Cynthia Ozick quote.
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand quote.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all.  It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision, no matter who tells you not to. - Howard Schultz quote.
Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all.  It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision, no matter who tells you not to.
Howard Schultz Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

aspiration

It takes vision and courage to create—it takes faith and courage to prove.

courage faith

To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao Tzu quote.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.

genius

Vision without effort is impotent. Effort without vision is blind.

effort