Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine. — Ellison Onizuka
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. — Steve Case
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. — Thomas Carlyle
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman
True Vision Image Quotes
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
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
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.
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
Great Vision Quotes
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
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
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. — John Stott
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
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
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
New Vision Quotes
By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding. — Robert Hooke
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision. — Indira Gandhi
After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling PayPal's original vision to create the new world currency. — David O. Sacks
Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision. — Rafik Hariri
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
In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off. — Russell Simmons
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — Ayn Rand
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves. — Orison Swett Marden
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
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden
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
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
True love has a habit of coming back.
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
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
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
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
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. — Rachel Carson
Clear Vision Quotes
Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision. — Bill Walsh
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. — Brian Tracy
Those who take the lead take it by doing three things. First, science to be able to manoeuvre; second, knowledge to be able to heavily invest in education; and third, a very wise leadership with a clear vision and a roadmap to the right direction. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
No artist tolerates reality.
If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times. — Tony Robbins
To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty. — John Daido Loori
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan. — Margaret J. Wheatley
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision — Bill Sienkiewicz
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. — Louis Mann
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. — S. D Gordon
Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord. — John Gibson Paton
Team Vision Quotes
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie
The bigger the vision you have, the more important it is for you to think on what type of a team you're going to put around you. — Patrick Bet-David
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. — John C. Maxwell
The quality of your business is directly proportional to the quality of the people you hire which is directly proportional to your character and your ability to cast a clear vision and how they fit in it. — Alex Hormozi
A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains — Kevin Rose
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort. — John C. Maxwell
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality. — John C. Maxwell
Common Vision Quotes
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Unknown
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. — Gary Snyder
Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle. — Gracie Allen
When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart. — Nainoa Thompson
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. — Jimmy Carter
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
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. — Nido R Qubein
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge. — Francis Fukuyama
Personal Vision Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Visionary Quotes
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation. — Robert Baden-Powell
I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. — Jeff Bezos
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others. — Henry Mintzberg
No one is born a visionary. You cultivate it. — Tom Bilyeu
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive. — John F. Kennedy
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin
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
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
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality. — Adam Grant
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. — Denis Waitley
The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension. — Peter Senge
Great founders don’t do what they love; they enable a vision. — Rand Fishkin
All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me. — Jay-Z
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
Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think. — Isaac Mashman
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler
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
It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama. — Albert Pinkham Ryder
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
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. — Oscar Wilde
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist's vision. — Roy Lichtenstein
There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life. — Stedman Graham
You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision. — Anna Wintour
Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them. — Zinedine Zidane
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus. — John Stott
Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision. — Anna Wintour
Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer. — Byron Katie
True visionaries are never lukewarm. — George Barna
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
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. — Edith Wharton
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe. — Philip Kapleau
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them. — J. G. Holland
It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise. — Marcus Buckingham
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. — Stephen Covey
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know... — Kahlil Gibran
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold. — Francis Crick
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. — Henry David Thoreau
Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal. — Patrick Grant
The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path. — Thomas G. Bandy
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding. — Bodhidharma
You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up. — Burt Lancaster
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth. — Rabindranath Tagore
True vision is the ability to see in another more than they are showing you. — Neale Donald Walsch
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself. — Brenda Ueland
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. — Woodrow Wilson
Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers? — Robert Graves
Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again. — Swami Vivekananda
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart. — Unknown
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. — Miguel de Unamuno
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