Quotes about vision

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

— Louis L. Mann

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

— Orison Swett Marden

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

— Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

— Orison Swett Marden

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

— Orison Swett Marden

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

— Henry Miller

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

— Henry Miller

Build it and they will come!

— Fields Of Dreams Movie

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

— Prentice Mulford

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

— Lewis Mumford

We go where our vision is.

— Joseph Edward Murphy

The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

— Edward R. Murrow

If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

— Sir Isaac Newton

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

— Earl Nightingale

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

— Pablo Picasso

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

— Peace Pilgrim

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

— Czech. Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

— Japanese Proverb

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

— Ayn Rand

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

— Anthony Robbins

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

— Marquis De Sade

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

— Peter Schultz

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

— Charles M. Schwab

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

— Charles M. Schwab

Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

— George Bernard Shaw

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

— Samuel Smiles

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

— Pamela Vaull Starr

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

— Jonathan Swift

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

— Charles Swindoll

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

— Studs Terkel

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

— Arnold Toynbee

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

— Brian Tracy

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

— James Ramsey Ullman

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

— Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

— Source Unknown

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

— Source Unknown

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

— Source Unknown

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

— Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

— Source Unknown

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

— Source Unknown

When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

— Source Unknown

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

— Source Unknown

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

— Donald Zimmerman

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

— Sam Walton

If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

— Les Williams

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

— Oprah Winfrey

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

— Stephen S. Wise

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

I would rather live my life than watch another person's life on T.V.

— Source Unknown

Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will.

— John Rocco Savalli

Remember that everything you see on television is an illusion - and you're only seeing what the magician wants you to see.

— John Rocco Savalli

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.

— John Ruskin

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There are no clear borders, only merging invisible to the sight.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Your vision of the future is largely what determines your level of optimism today.

— A. Brandon Trean