Vision Quotes

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

~ Henry Kissinger

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

~ Saint Augustine

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

~ Black Elk

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

~ Warren Bennis

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

~ John C. Maxwell

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

~ Leila Janah

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

~ George W. Bush

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.

~ Shirley Chisholm

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

~ Mitt Romney

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

~ Steve Blank

My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

~ Justin Trudeau

I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.

~ Baba Kalyani

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

~ John O. Brennan

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

~ Dennis Hastert

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

~ Adam Schiff

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

~ Karen Kain

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

~ W. Averell Harriman

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

~ Justine Bateman

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

~ Owen D. Young

Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.

~ Lewis Howes

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

~ John Doolittle

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

~ Dean Kamen

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

~ Arthur M. Schlesinger

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

~ Octavia E. Butler

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

~ Ken Salazar

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

~ Nicolas Berggruen

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.

~ Thurgood Marshall

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

~ Jack Welch

As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.

~ Christy Turlington

Radical Islamic jihadists have a long-term vision. And if they have to stay in Europe to obtain a citizenship, to ultimately travel to the United States, and if it takes them five years or ten years, they're okay with that. History has proven that.

~ Jeff Duncan

We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country.

~ Theresa May

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

~ David Cameron

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

~ Mark Mckinnon

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

~ George Takei

At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.

~ George Takei

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

~ Barbara Jordan

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

~ Dominique De Villepin