Vision
205 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 182 from other voices.
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- Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
- Optimism is the ability to focus on where we’re going, not where we’re coming from.
- Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
- Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal.
- Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
- Set goals that seem audacious today but inevitable tomorrow.
- Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
- Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.Myles MunroeSourced
- Some of us have no vision past the next meal. Let us be men and women of sight, for opportunity is knocking everywhere.
- Sometimes, it is said we are dreamers. Well, the world needs dreamers. Sometimes out of these dreams come visions that materialize into great things.
- Stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
- Start with the end in mind.
- Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- The ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is the “master skill” of success.
- The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
- The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
- The end we aim at must be known before the way.
- The essence of formulating strategy is relating a company to its environment.
- The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.
- The great doers in history have always been men of faith.
- The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
- The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
- The highest fame was never reached except By what was aimed above it.
- The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.
- The mental image is what counts, be it for good or ill.
- The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God’s highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.
- The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better is what drives the human race forward.
- The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base.
- The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprize; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.