Vision Quotes

Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.

~ Julie F. Parker

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

~ Pawan Mishra

Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders do not chase comfort, they pursue vision even if it comes with risks. Don’t give up too early because you see not early rewards.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

~ Robert A. Caro

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

~ Edward Hopper

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.

~ Jessica Lave

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

~ Teresa R. Funke

I don't want realism. I want magic. I live magic. I am magic.

~ Oksana Rus

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...

~ Oksana Rus

Soft on the neck of either dove love's hands let slip the reins: and while we look for light of love, love's twilight wanes...

~ Oksana Rus

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

~ Twyla Tharp

There should not be opinion regarding anything. Opinion means you are supporting it. ‘Know’ the wrong as wrong, ‘Know’ right as right. There should not be any attachment (raag) towards the right, and abhorrence (dwesh) towards the wrong. There is no such thing as right or wrong. Right and wrong is a duality, it is illusionary vision, it is a societal belief. God does not see it that way. In God’s view, having a dinner on the table or going to toilet, they are both the same.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who has won over duality is adwait (non-duality; state of oneness, free from duality-state). With a transparent inner vision one can attain a state beyond duality.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

~ Gérard De Nerval

As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What if your Vision Board came true?

~ Juliette Power

You can see clearly in sacred moment of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life, the cause of it is moha (illusory vision).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

~ Criss Jami

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

~ Amit Ray

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

~ Criss Jami

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

~ James Robertson

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983

~ Winston S. Churchill

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

~ Simon Sinek

My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The term work is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it.

~ J.r. Rim

I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: The girl went through the experience that we all go through and forget, the moment we are born. She saw, but it did not mean anything but a lot of different kinds of brightness. . . . In general the newly sighted see the world as a dazzle of color-patches. They are pleased by the sensation of color, and learn quickly to name the colors, but the rest of seeing is tormentingly difficult. . . . The mental effort involved . . . proves overwhelming for many patients. It oppresses them to realize, if they ever do at all, the tremendous size of the world, which they had previously conceived of as something touchingly manageable. . . . A disheartening number of them refuse to use their new vision, continuing to go over objects with their tongues, and lapsing into apathy and despair. . . . On the other hand, many newly sighted people speak well of the world, and teach us how dull is our own vision.

~ Annie Dillard

It takes two to Tao.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Always be there for others. Always inspire them with your dreams and hope, vision and mission, attitude and aptitude.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. The cross was the proof of His love – that He gave that Son, that He let Him go to Calvary’s cross, though “legions of angels” might have rescued Him. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

~ Elisabeth Elliot