Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Vision

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. 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 (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry Kissinger (b.1923) American Diplomat, Academician

Relatively few of us will find the time—or take it—to live an ever enlarging life.
Marilyn vos Savant (b.1946) American Columnist, Author, Lecture, Playwright

Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you’ll find even those steps useful in the creating process.
David Emerald

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

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher

When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your highest vision change to a new thought! Then and there. When you say a thing that is our of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can.
Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author

You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser (1868–1935) Canadian Author

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.
Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author

The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American Biographer, Novelist, Socialist

The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist

On the qualities of a Politician: The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year — and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh (1917–2015) American Catholic Educator, Clergyman

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
Bill Gates (b.1955) American Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Author

Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) American Spirituality Writer

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002) American Journalist, Essayist, Memoirist, Travel Writer

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!
Alfred A. Montapert (1906–97) American Engineer, Philosopher

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask why not?”.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Architect

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Anonymous

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.
Phillips Brooks (1835–93) American Episcopal Clergyman, Author

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

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