Vision quotes
2.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted A vision without action is merely a dream Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence"
"You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear."
"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity."
"The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go."
"Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision."
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"We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision."
"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."
"Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination"
"It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
"How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper."
"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."
"Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair."
"Vision without execution is daydreaming."
"I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David."
"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision."
"If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian."
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
"Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself."
"Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision."
"You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen."
"Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality"
"Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all."
"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"
"Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action."
