Motivational Quotes

Vision

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]

Bible

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Sawyer, Diane

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Mailer, Norman

I always looked ahead.

Evert, Chris

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Ford, Anna

You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mulford, Prentice

10.

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.

11.

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Hitchcock, Alfred

12.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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.

Schultz, Peter

14.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Barker, Joel A.

15.

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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Smiles, Samuel

17.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

18.

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.

Ullman, James Ramsey

19.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Allen, Charles L.

21.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

22.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

23.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

Harriman, Edward H.

24.

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Sarraute, Nathalie

26.

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

Wise, Stephen S.

27.

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

Proverb, Czech.

28.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Kasem, Casey

29.

Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

Fumaroli, Marc

30.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

31.

Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Collier, Robert

32.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Collier, Robert

33.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

34.

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

35.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Broughton, James

40.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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.

Miller, Henry

43.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Churchill, Winston

45.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Burnham, Daniel H.

46.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

47.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Midler, Bette

49.

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

Mumford, Lewis

50.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Eliot, T. S.