A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality. — Strive Masiyiwa
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires. — John C. Maxwell
A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create? — Peter Senge
Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles. — Charles R. Swindoll
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. — Thomas Young
Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible. — Shiv Khera
The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man. — David Yonggi Cho
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see. — Diego Rivera
Ones vision is not a road map but a compass. — Peter Block
Short Personal Vision Quotes
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success. — Wiz Khalifa
A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive. — Tejomayananda
No one is born a visionary. You cultivate it. — Tom Bilyeu
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. — Steve Case
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. — Andy Stanley
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman
Vision without execution is just hallucination. — Henry Ford
Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare. — Lewis Howes
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. — Denis Waitley
Personal Vision Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
What Is Vision Quotes
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference — Wangari Maathai
People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about. — Nick Saban
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen. — Al Pacino
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. — T. D. Jakes
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. — Thucydides
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries — Ban Ki-moon
Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action. — Adam West
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Inner Vision Quotes
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky. — Lao Tzu
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. — D. H. Lawrence
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. — Edward Hopper
When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand. — Louise Hay
Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions. — Nainoa Thompson
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world. — Bruce Lee
Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath to tear a
hundred veils. Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes
of inner vision and not to take this
world so seriously — Rumi
Vision Of Life Quotes
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less. — Kurt Hahn
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. — Denis Waitley
A different language is a different vision of life. — Federico Fellini
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. — Jack Nicklaus
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. — John Ruskin
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. — Matthew Henson
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. — Steve Jobs
Great Vision Quotes
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. — Florence Scovel Shinn
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. — John Stott
Great vision without great people is irrelevant. — Jim Collins
We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness. — Charles Handy
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter Drucker
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. — Black Elk
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand — Woodrow Wilson
Personal Mission Quotes
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. — Stephen Covey
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem. — Pol Pot
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions. — John Mott
The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally. — David Jeremiah
I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day. — Farrah Gray
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. — Charles Lindbergh
I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself. — Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat — Eldridge Cleaver
A person is either a missionary or a mission field. — Corrie Ten Boom
True Vision Quotes
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. — Claude Monet
We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness. — Tommy Douglas
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. — Osho
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. — Oskar Kokoschka
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. — John C. Maxwell
To realize this vision, I risked everything. Because when the heart is true, the Universe will conspire to support you. — Rich Roll
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. — Abraham Maslow
A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it. — Jan Carlzon
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. — Janos Arany
Artistic Vision Quotes
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat
I assure you, we do not lurk around every corner, questioning every creative decision. The most successful creative people… want to see their creations in the street. They don’t invent just to invent. — Bernard Arnault
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler
Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ. — John Walford
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach. — Pearl S. Buck
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar. — Maya Lin
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished. — Charles Bartlett Johnson
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel. — Romare Bearden
Personal Journey Quotes
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. — Ram Dass
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. — Paulo Coelho
Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination — William Bridges
Your are more powerful than you know. Do not delay your journey to personal excellence. — Tom Bilyeu
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. — John Eldredge
Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16. — Nicola Sturgeon
I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life. — Donny Robinson
Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It’s not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way. — Edward O. Thorp
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. — John Steinbeck
You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving. — Cornel West
The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . . — Bayard Rustin
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. — Brian Tracy
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. 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
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come. — Steve Jobs
Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day. — Dana White
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. — Stephen Covey
When you are working well with your
energy, you are also making the best
expression of your personal power... By
reading your own energy, by becoming
aware of the lens through which you see
your world, you can change your mind and change your life. — Caroline Myss
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions. — Diane di Prima
The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment. — Robert Kennedy
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service. — Fred Rogers
Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen. — Jim Valvano
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally. — Santha Rama Rau
In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in. — Anna Wintour
Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance. — Dave Ulrich
There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become. — Sheri L. Dew
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. — Stephen Covey
I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice. — John Carlos
Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about. — Julie Andrews
For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it. — Scarlett Johansson
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value. — Nathaniel Branden
The principal person in a picture is light. — Edouard Manet
Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person. — Steve Jobs
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision. — Angela Ahrendts
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — Guy de Maupassant
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. — David Foster Wallace
Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life. — Timothy Leary
Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too. — Guy Kawasaki
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper. — Hilary Benn
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision. — Ai-jen Poo
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. — Peter Senge
People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision. — John P. Kotter
Always begin with the end in mind. — Ellen Muth
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. — Galen Rowell
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest. — Robert Nozick
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path. — Michael Kenna
For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk. — Jill McCorkle
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