Vision Quotes
1. 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.
2. Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.
3. The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
4. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
5. It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.
6. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
7. The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
8. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
9. If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!
10. Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.
11. People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?
12. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.
13. 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.
14. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
15. He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
16. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
17. Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, “without a vision (dream), a people perish.” You need a dream, if you’re going to succeed in anything you do.
18. If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
19. The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
20. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
21. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
22. There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
23. Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
24. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
25. 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.
26. We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
27. Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees
28. Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
29. I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
30. Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.
31. To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
32. The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
33. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
34. Reality is what people who lack vision see.
35. If you’re reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.
36. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
37. When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.
38. Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
39. It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.
40. If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about.
41. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
42. Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
43. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.
44. I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
45. When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.
46. The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
47. The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.
48. There’s no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that’s that.
49. A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought.
50. It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.
51. We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.
52. Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.
53. Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.
54. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
55. There is a master way with words which is not learned but is e.
