100 Vision And Mission Quotes

Following is our list of vision and mission quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about goals and objectives.

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Famous Vision And Mission Quotes

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey. — Ken Blanchard

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. — Thomas Young

Vision without execution is just hallucination. - Henry Ford

Vision without execution is just hallucination. — Henry Ford

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare. — Lewis Howes

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverbs

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. — Japanese Proverbs

The best vision is insight. - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The best vision is insight. — Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers. — Konosuke Matsushita

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible. — Shiv Khera

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

People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains — Kevin Rose

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

Great vision without great people is irrelevant. — Jim Collins

Great vision without great people is irrelevant. - James C. Collins

Great vision without great people is irrelevant. — James C. Collins

Short Vision And Mission Quotes

  • Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action. — David Bornstein
  • Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives. — Russel Honore
  • Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure. — Peter Drucker
  • You need desire to be fully alive and you need vision to fulfill your desires. — Lewis Howes
  • All great things begin with a vision... a dream. — Estee Lauder
  • Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. — John P. Kotter
  • Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. — Robert Collier
  • Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. — Lewis Howes
  • Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison

Vision And Mission Image Quotes

Vision and mission quote Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of
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.

Mission Statement Quotes

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management. — Howard Schultz

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. — Ron Livingston

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

Vision and mission quote Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it. — Barry McGee

My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements. — Janet Mock

If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?' — C. K. Prahalad

Vision and mission quote The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.
The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement. — Merlin Mann

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others. — Joel Manby

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. — Stephen Covey

Always begin with the end in mind. — Ellen Muth

Goals And Objectives Quotes

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. - Samuel Beckett

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett

My goal has always been to add value, not to be redundant, not to get in the way, but to do things that lift and move things forward in a very strategic and objective way so that there are real outcomes. — Michelle Obama

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

Vision and mission quote No artist tolerates reality.
No artist tolerates reality.

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures. — Gaylord Nelson

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. — Aristotle

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about. — Brian Tracy

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them. — Isaiah Berlin

Strategic Vision Quotes

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. — Theodore Hesburgh

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. — Henry Mintzberg

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen

Vision and mission quote When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation. — Garry Kasparov

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels. — Garry Kasparov

The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important. — Carly Fiorina

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision. — Garry Kasparov

I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people. — Nancy Pelosi

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic. — Pitbull

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More Vision And Mission Quotes

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. — John Stott

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

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow. — Jon C. Madonna

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world. — A. B. Simpson

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. — Hudson Taylor

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family. — Tom Vilsack

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective. — Alan Hirsch

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Big thinking precedes great achievement. — Wilferd Peterson

It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life. — Stephen Covey

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it. — Soren Kierkegaard

It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing....you must make them see their work as a MISSION. — Richard Branson

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated. — Jack Welch

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart. — Robert Pierce

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

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him — Hudson Taylor

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life. — Stephen Covey

The leader feels the pulse of a burning passion and communicates that heat at every opportunity. He or she lives the dream, breathes the vision, sleeps the mission, and eats the goals every day. The leader shares those goals all the time with everyone. It is a vibration the entire organization can feel. — Phil Pringle

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. — Oswald J. Smith

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy. — Rumi

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission. — Robert Johnson

Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission. — Henri

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all. — Pete Seeger

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind. — Seneca

Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus. — Colin Powell

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission. — Tony Robbins

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. — Ronald Reagan

People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do. — LeCrae

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions. — William McDonough

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family. — Thomas Vilsack

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond. — Sheila Jackson Lee

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading. — Robin S. Sharma

For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really not ever expanding as an artist, developing everything from my songwriting to my singing to my mission statement to my vision. I've been so inspired by all the creative freedom that it brings that I have no complaints. — Melissa Auf der Maur

Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible. — Garry Kasparov

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission. — Colin Powell

Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission. — Amartya Sen

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done. — Irene Cara

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision. — David Karp

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. — Colin Powell

Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees. — Tom Gegax

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well. — Benedetto Croce

All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation. — Stephen Covey

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others. — Marc Chagall

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