Motivational Quotes

Vision

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

- Wise, Stephen S.

Best Quotes about Vision

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.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Smiles, Samuel

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Alcott, Louisa May

The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

Mack, Burton L.

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

Kael, Pauline

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

Chapman, John Jay

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

Zimmerman, Donald

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Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Gaines, Frank

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

Build it and they will come!

Movie, Fields Of Dreams

19.

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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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

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

Mumford, Lewis

27.

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

Bible

28.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Walton, Sam

29.

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

30.

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

Terkel, Studs

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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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Wise, Stephen S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Browne, Harry

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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.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Mulford, Prentice

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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Ross, Andrew

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

Ford, Anna

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Aim for the highest.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Blake, William

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Davies, Robertson

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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Williams, Les

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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.

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We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson