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Vision

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.--Thucydides
Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is only the shoreline of the magnificent ocean of the invisible. --John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong)
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.--Napoleon Hill
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.--Robert L. Schwartz
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.--Florence Scovel Shinn
Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it.--Charles Fillmore
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.--Robert Heinlein
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.--Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind)
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.--Will Rogers
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in fragment and from different points of vision.--Mahatma Gandhi
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.--Melody Beattie
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.--John Maxwell
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.--Bob Kall
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become...--James Allen (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 153)
I feel that most people have visions, dreams, and insight as the fruits of their spiritual practices... But we need to give ourselves permission to act out those dreams and visions ... even if it takes a lifetime.--Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins (The Feminine Face of God)
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.--Henry David Thoreau
The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that vision. The vision by itself is one half, one part, of a process. It implies the necessity of living that vision, otherwise the vision will sink back into itself.--Lewis P. Johnson ("Seeking the Spirit Path" Parabala)
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.--George Eliot
If you can't see it, before you see it, you'll never see it.--Dr. Jack Graham
If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.--Zig Ziglar
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. Dalai Lama
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.--Jimmy Carter
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of percepton is also the limit of all there is to perceive.--C. W. Leadbeater
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.--Robert Jarvik
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.--Warren G. Bennis
Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.--John-Roger (Life 101)
Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.--Betty Smith
The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.--Deepak Chopra (Life After Death: The Burden of Proof)
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.--Helen Keller
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.--Dag Hammarskjold
New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?--William Least Heat Moon (Blue Highways)
No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.--Thomas Carlyle ("Count Cagliostro")
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.--Joyce A. Myers
Nuture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.--Benjamin Disraeli
On a hilltop you can see a long way and think long thoughts about How and What and Why.--Douglas Wood (A Quiet Place)
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.--Nelson Mandela
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.--Frank Gaines (Forbes)
Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.--Albert Einstein
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.--Warren Bennis
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.--Charles Swindoll
Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds.--Franklin Field
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.--Joseph Wood Krutch
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Flight to Arras)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle--Albert Einstein
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.--Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Trust your hunches.... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.--Joyce Brothers (How to Get What You Want Out of Life)
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.--Warren Bennis
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
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.--Jonathan Swift
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.--Stephen S. Wise
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.--Joan Chittister
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart--this you will build your life by, and this you will become.--James Lane Allen
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.--Willie Stone
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.--Japanese proverb
Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.--Joel Barker
The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.--Colin Wilson ("An Autobiographical Introduction" Religion and the Rebel)
Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.--Berkeley Rice (New York Times Magazine, March 17, 1968)
Visualization, that seeing of that which is not yet, is essential for the attainment of all the good that man may aspire to.--Tehilla Lichtenstein ("God in the Silence")
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.--Marcel Proust
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.--Henri Amiel (Journal)
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.--Anonymous
We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.--Carolyn Forche
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.--John Lubbock
When I care to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.--Audre Lorde
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.--Charles Swindoll
When it is darkest, men see the stars.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash--at such times the wawakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness", the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.--Thomas Merton
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.--Gerald W. Grummet
With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!--Charles R. Swindoll (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)
The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.--Robert Schuller
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.--Warren Bennis
Your world is as big as you make it.--Georgia Douglas Johnson ("Your World")