Leadership Vision Quotes

• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Jobs, Smart

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• A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Determination, Recovery

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.197, Library of America

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Vision with action can change the world.

  J. A. Baker

  Change, Leadership, Visions Of The Future

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• A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Vision

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual Vision

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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• Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Business, Vision

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Learning, Successful

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, Running, Optimistic

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Success, Vision

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Visionaries, Imagine

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