Vision goes beyond sight and beyond what you can see in the present. What the future brings can only be built by you. So for a promising tomorrow, here are 141 vision quotes.
Vision Quotes
1. All successful people, men and women, 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
2. If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs
3. Vision with action can change the world. – J. A. Baker
4. We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. – Khalil Gibran
5. Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires. – John C. Maxwell
6. 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
7. Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill
8. Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. – Marianne Williamson
9. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. – Ayn Rand
10. It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. – Les Brown
11. Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. – Krister Stendahl
12. The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension. – Peter Senge
13. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch
14. When I dare 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
15. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer
16. It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. – James Joyce
17. 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 – your ideal of what you long to attain – the ideal of health, efficiency, success. – Orison Swett Marden
18. Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. – Li Ka-shing
19. The more boundless your vision, the more real you are. – Deepak Chopra
20. Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action. – Warren G. Bennis
21. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. – Henry Miller
22. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. – Robert Collier
23. The man don’t make the vision; the vision makes the man. – David Yonggi Cho
24. When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority. – Charles R. Swindoll
25. I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. – W. Clement Stone
26. For visions come not to polluted eyes. – Mary Howitt
27. Seeing within changes one’s outer vision. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
28. Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. – Stephen Samuel Wise
29. I discover vision, not as a ‘thinking about seeing,’ to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze. – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
30. The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation. – Doris McCarthy
31. Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny. – Thomas S. Monson
32. You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it. – Jessica Alba
33. Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. – Thomas Young
34. We are not stuck in the ruts of destiny, we have the power to break free, clear our vision and see a new life for ourselves. – Tony Clark
35. If you don’t have a vision, you’re going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you’ve already seen. – Iyanla Vanzant
36. Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others. – Roy T. Bennett
37. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller
38. The world of great opportunity is available now, as it has always been, only for those with great vision. – Andrew Carnegie
39. A dream is the creative vision for your life in the future. – Denis Waitley
40. Ones vision is not a road map but a compass. – Peter Block
41. A vision without an action is a daydream. An action without vision is a nightmare. – Jonathan Hayashi
42. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift
43. The first step to making changes in your life is to have a clear vision of what you hope to accomplish in the future. – Barbara Gain
44. Vision without execution is hallucination. – Thomas Edison
45. A vision gives you a general direction for life while a process goal is part of the dream that you are accomplishing by taking specific actions today. – Thomas Abreu
46. In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision. – Dalai Lama
47. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. – George Washington Carver
48. Chase the vision, not the money. – Tony Hsieh
49. Vision is the true creative rhythm. – Robert Delaunay
50. Don’t focus on where you are today, keep positive vision and see yourself accomplishing your goals and fulfilling your destiny. – Joel Osteen
51. You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don’t hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry. – Gertrude Stein
52. Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion. – Bill Hybels
53. Vision is a destination a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route an adaptable path to get us where we want to go. – Simon Sinek
54. Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible. – Shiv Khera
55. The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton
56. You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it’s not about grand innovation, it’s about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. – Jason Calacanis
57. It’s important to be true to yourself and your vision. – Nicole Polizzi
58. Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. – Stevie Wonder
59. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps we must step up the stairs. – Vance Havner
60. Pain pushes until vision pulls. – Michael Beckwith
61. Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. – Leroy Hood
62. When you have a vision that is strong enough and powerful enough, nothing can stand in your way. – Lewis Howes
63. A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality. – John Carmack
64. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung
65. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So, when you are riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! – Bob Marley
66. If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
67. Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. – Joseph Joubert
68. A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past. – Daisaku Ikeda
69. Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. – Oprah Winfrey
70. When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure. – Myles Munroe
71. Where there is no vision the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18
72. The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. – Theodore Hesburgh
73. A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity. One must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
74. The best vision is insight. – Malcolm Forbes
75. Although my circumstance was homeless, my vision wasn’t! – Eric Thomas
76. Setting goals allows you to paint a vision of what you wish your future to be. – Catherine Pulsifer
77. It will help you to weave your vision into a new reality for yourself in which you are becoming someone who is consistently able to turn an idea into income by taking disciplined and inspired action. – Annabel Melnyk
78. The wonderful thing is that vision is greater than baggage. – Stephen Covey
79. Goal-setting helps distinguish relevant from irrelevant stuff. With clear vision, you are able to prioritise. – Joanna Jast
80. That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. – Charles Dickens
81. Maybe you have an unfulfilled dream or vision to do something significant for the Lord. You may have become discouraged and are about to abandon the vision God placed in your heart. If so, please do not give up. You can be sure that what God tells you to do, He will, in His appointed time, enable you to do. – Bill Bright
82. It doesn’t matter how fast you can go, it doesn’t matter how much passion you have, and it doesn’t matter how much energy you put into something. If you don’t have a vision and clarity on the destination you want to reach, you’ll simply never get there. – Dean Graziosi
83. By having a clear vision, even a short vision of what will happen in the future. We will be less worried and feel a little bit confident, and calm because we can manage our life in the world that is changing every second. – Ly Nguyen
84. The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. – George Eliot
85. Sometimes, creative visions can rise to the surface from dreams. – Justin Todd
86. Giving our visions and stories and characters to become friends to others lifts not only ourselves but the world and all its futures. – Richard Bach
87. Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. – Joel Barker
88. God grant me these: the strength to do some needed service here; the wisdom to be brave and true; the gift of vision clear, that in each task that comes to me some purpose I may plainly see. – Edgar A Guest
89. People with extreme confidence do not let temporary setbacks slow them down. They have a clear vision of what they want, and they go get it. – Beau Norton
90. Do not occupy yourself with regrets of past mistakes or worries about the present. Rather, be more occupied with your visions for the future during your working years. – Eugene C. Onyibo
91. The only thing separating you from your grandest vision is courage. – Christie Ruffino
92. Building a shared vision. This can be achieved through empowering individuals to create a common single image of the future and the organization. – Max Cesar King
93. If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness! – Pablo Picasso
94. Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience. – Anthon St. Maarten
95. Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. – Victor Hugo
96. Live your vision and demand your success. – Steve Maraboli
97. A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought. – Neeraj Agnihotri
98. Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. – Henry Adams
99. At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing. – William Golding
100. A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. – Larry Crabb
101. Reality is what people who lack vision see. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
102. The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others. – J. Oswald Sanders
103. You need to choose your association according to your vision. – Onyi Anyado
104. Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions. – Lailah Gifty Akita
105. A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
106. When you care. You don’t have to be pushed or whatever. You fulfill your vision. It’s that simple. It doesn’t even feel like work. It’s easy. Too easy. Remember that. – Jill Telford
107. It’s scary to be in the dark initially, but the real vision is lost when instead of searching for the light, we start adjusting to the dark. – Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
108. When the vision of your dreams gets blurry remember to readjust your lens. – Angel Moreira
109. The era without limits begins, when; The vision awakens. And the journal jumps. – Alan Maiccon
110. Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units. – Nido R. Qubein
111. If, the vision is blind; the life cannot properly dress up the success. – Ehsan Sehgal
112. A sacred wandering awakens you. It connects you to your authentic self. It can empower you to find your voice. To enlarge your vision. To nurture your soul. To create healthy boundaries. To bravely try something new. – Dana Arcuri
113. Vision gives meaning to grace just as hunger gives meaning to food. – Paul Bamikole
114. Focus on what is most important. Find what truly matters to you. Realign your life with new priorities. Find a new vision, new goals, and a clearer path. Everything else will begin to fall away. – Akiroq Brost
115. By directing without assumption and validating with fact…
By avoiding the hype and digging into the proof of concept…
and by vetting and double checking for the facts and fiction…
You can move past the false messaging to find the authentic routes for your vision. – Create Wealth Communities
116. If you design a compelling future, it’s easier to push yourself because your vision will pull you. – Freequill
117. That spark you felt ignite inside you, that split-second vision that you had of yourself bright like the Sun — believe that! Believe that. – C. JoyBell C.
118. When visionaries die, their vision lives on. – Gift Gugu Mona
119. Your vision exists in your own volition in following your dreams. – Aqeel Farhang
120. Vision is your first creation of the future. – Tobi Delly
121. It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does. – Peter Senge
122. It is good to have your own vision, but it is dangerous not to run with it. – Bamigboye Olurotimi
123. Vision provides guidance about what core to preserve and what future to stimulate progress toward. – James C. Collins
124. When the shimmer of the past is melting into the presence, spreading a scent of attentiveness and inquiringness, our mind may ask for a new reading of the story of our life. An innocuous flicker from a hazy sequence in our memory lane can affect our current awareness, making us raise questions, throwing new light on our expectations; crafting an airy vision of the future. (“A change of vision” ) – Erik Pevernagie
125. Through persistence to a clear vision, the dreamer comes to understand that no matter how unlikely, taboo, or youthful these dreams may appear to be, the belly of the earth can and will still stretch with the conception of the new dream as sure as the belly of a woman can and will stretch with the conception of new life. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
126. You see how things might be and you aren’t afraid to risk something to have it. – Joseph Monninger
127. As for your vision,
& what is or isn’t written,
Stay faithful until it’s fateful. – Suhaib Rumi
128. Without vision, we can’t fully comprehend the unlimited potential packed within. When that happens, we can’t attain greatness- our birthright. – Assegid Habtewold
129. Your spiritual path is decided by your vision and accomplished by your consistency. – Samuel T. Padmore
130. The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. – Kalpana Chawla
131. I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. – Myles Munroe
132. You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic. – Travis Scott
133. Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. – Emmitt Smith
134. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end. – Usher
135. You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. – Paul Arden
136. 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
137. I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do. – Martin Lawrence
138. What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan. – Alan Mulally
139. Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives. – Tom Steyer
140. Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world. – Shari Arison
141. Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. – Ken Auletta
