#Vision Quotes

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

“What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!”

“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?”

“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.”

“Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future”

“What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.”

“Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.”

“Genius appeals to the future.”

“It is the eye which makes the horizon.”

“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.”

“A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.”

“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.”

“They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.”

“...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.”

“The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold”

“Where there is no vision a people perish.”

“Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.”

“You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have”

“I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.”

“It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?”

“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We never found a real model (for our vision).”

“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...”

“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”

“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.”

“Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!”

“Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.”

“For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.”

“No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.”

“It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.”

“Create a life you can't wait to live.”

“We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”

“You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.”

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.”

“Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.”

“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.”

“To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.”

“I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.”

“The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.”

“All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it”

“A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.”

“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”

“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.”

“The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.”