As entrepreneurs and travelers, we often face challenges that require us to put our faith in the unknown. Whether we’re starting a new business venture or venturing into new territory, it’s essential to have a strong vision to guide us forward.
To help you stay motivated and driven, we’ve compiled a list of curated quotes about vision from some of the world’s most successful people.
These inspiring words will remind you of the importance of having a clear vision and give you the strength to keep moving forward even when times are tough. So read on for some much-needed motivation!
Quotes About Vision
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
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
Success! Such a magical word like gold or love or Shangrila, it conjures up different but always enticing visions in the minds of all of us.
Og Mandino
Keep your eyes on the stars, but your feet on the ground.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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 heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
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
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
Always speak well of yourself and consistently visualize your life working out as you want it.
Andrew Matthews
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
Charles Dickens
Little girls with dreams become women with vision. The world of great opportunity is available now, as it has always been, only for those with great vision.
Andrew Carnegie
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Tofflert
Wherever you find a prosperous business, you will come upon some individual who has Creative Vision.
Napoleon Hill
A dream is the creative vision for your life in the future.
Denis Waitley
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.
Michelangelo
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
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
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John Maxwell
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
Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.
Joel Barker
Don’t expect people to understand your grind when God didn’t give them your vision. Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Brian Tracy
Create your future from your future, not your past.
Werner Erhard
In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama
Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, then lord among those without dreams and desires.
Kahlil Gibran
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Dwight Eisenhower
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
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 Schwab
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively and continually. However, the vision does not come alive until the leader models it.
John C Maxwell
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
John P Kotter
A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Soren Kierkegaard
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it but everywhere.
Ronald Reagan
A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David Gergen
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G Bennis
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there.
Mike Huckabee
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Franklin D Roosevelt
A leader without a vision is like a piano player without a piano or a kite without wind.
Jonathan Michael Bowman
Vision and persistence will get you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.
Orrin Woodward.
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
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.
Theodore Hesburgh.
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
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world.
Leroy Hood
Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.
Paul Arden
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Thomas Edison
The most important thing is to simultaneously deal with reality, but also have a vision about where you want to go.
Alan Mulally
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Jack Canfield
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is the vision offered to explain why.
Simon Sinek
A clear vision backed by definite plans gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Brian Tracy
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
John C Maxwell
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Maria Montessori
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey
A philosophy of life: I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.
Paulo Coelho
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilferd Peterson
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Neil Gaiman
Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.
Shiv Khera
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
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
In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A Barker
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
Bill Hybels
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
Robert Fritz
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
Denis Waitley
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
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Seneca
Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.
Roy T Bennett
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
When you open your mind, you give your imagination freedom to act for you. You utilize the gift of vision.
Napoleon Hill
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vision gets the dreams started. 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
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
Steve Bannon
The power of the word and the power of the book has played a major role in turning my vision… into reality.
John C Bogle
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse, but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
An artist is not just paid for his labor, but for his vision.
James Whistler
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.
Tom Steyer
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller
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
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F Kennedy
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes
The tragedy in life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E Mays
When there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
Orison Swett Marden
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
Ken Auletta
Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.
Sam Walton
If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. Doesn’t get you anywhere.
Werner Herzog
Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T Bennett
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R Swindoll
Strategic planning is worthless unless there’s a strategic vision.
John Naisbitt
Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
Simon Sinek
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James Broughton
Faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
If you don’t have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you’re going, and you’re going to work very hard to go nowhere.
J J Watt
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate or our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich
A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.
John Carmack
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
John C Maxwell
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.
Tony Hsieh
The more clear you are about what you want the more likely you are to achieve it.
Billy Cox
Have a vision for a world where business is the most powerful force for positive change.
Lucas Donat
To succeed in business you need to make others see your vision.
John Henry Patterson
If you have a great mission statement from a great vision statement then your greatness will surpass your own generation.
Joel Nyarangi Akoya
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
A Final Word
We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection of quotes about vision as much as we have. The insights from these great minds are a powerful reminder that if we want to achieve our dreams, we first need to be able to see them clearly.
What’s your favorite quote about vision? Leave a comment below and let us know. As always, thanks for reading!
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