Vision Quotes

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for being:Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!I never sought to ask, I never knew:But, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Vision is a picture of a desired future; a picture of something that I don't possess right now, but it is something I want to see and experience, and something I want the people I am leading to experience.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The legislator must be in advance of his age.Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.