I dream my painting and paint my dream.
—Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
—James Allen (1864–1912) British Philosophical Writer
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
—Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949) Hungarian-Born American Rabbi
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
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
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful—of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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 Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
—Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934) British Theosophist, Occultist
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
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 (c.455?c.400 BCE) Greek Historian
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
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 Writer, Essayist, Critic
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
—Chinese Proverb
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
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940–2021) American Author of “Life’s Little Instruction Book”
If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don’t drink it.
—Chinese Proverb
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
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
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 (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
—Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) British Historian
For those who have seen the earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
—Donald E. Williams (1942–2016) American Astronaut, Naval Officer
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
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
—Anonymous
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
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