The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
—Ralph Vaull Starr
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
—Dorothea Brande (1893–1948) American Writer, Editor
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
—Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish Physicist
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
—Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American Author, Oral Historian
Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one’s credibility for future delivery.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
—Joel A. Barker
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.
—Hannah Arendt (1906–75) German-American Philosopher, Political Theorist
Beware of the ides of March.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
—Alistair Cooke (1908–2004) British-American Journalist, Broadcaster
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
—Joel A. Barker
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
—James A. Garfield (1831–81) American Head of State, Lawyer, Educator
We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer
Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream things that never were, and say, “Why not?”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader
You don’t need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles—events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
—Harry Browne (1933–2006) American Politician, Investor, Writer
Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.
—Unknown
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.
—Indian Proverb
Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you’ll hit higher.
—Unknown
For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn’t you reach out for something big?
—Charles L. Allen (1913–2005) American Methodist Minister
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
—Muriel Strode (1875–1964) American Author, Businesswoman
You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
—Michael E. Gerber
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.
—Unknown
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
—Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939) American Businessperson
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
—Les Brown
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