Vision Quotes

• Vision without execution is delusion.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Execution, Delusion

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• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.

  Tony Dungy

  Dream, Commitment, Passion

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• As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Creating

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Hard Work, Reality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Integrity, Dedication

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.179, Penguin

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• Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

  Tom Peters

  Details, Broads, Strokes

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• Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Thrones, Crowns, Empires

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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• I have never been disabled in my dreams.

  Christopher Reeve

  Dream, Disabled

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• Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

  Andy Stanley

  Emotion, Evoke

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.9, Multnomah

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• Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Pleasure, Individual

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• A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Special, Blind, Prophet

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1785, Random House

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• we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Needs, Approval, Strive

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Self, Practice

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Selfish, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• 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.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hate, Reality, Suffering

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.85, Revell

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• My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Decision, Challenges, Mind

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• The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Plato, Eye, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.123, Virginia Woolf

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Future, Animal

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• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Future, Character

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

  Juliet Marillier

  Dark, Light, Evil

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.464, Macmillan

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• The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

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