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Quotations : VISION

"The empires of the future are empires of the mind."
- Winston Churchill

"Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make use of their victories."
- Polybius

"Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."
- Margaret Mead

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask Why? I dream of things that never were and ask Why not?"
- Robert Kennedy

"The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you can articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet."
- Fr. Theodore Hesburgh

"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going."
- Joe Namath

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
- Proverbs 29:18

"We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we’ll go without them."
- Marilyn Grey

"If you do not know where you’re going, every road will take you nowhere."
- Henry Kissinger

"Foresight is the ‘lead’ that the leader has. Once he loses this lead and events start to force his hand, he is leader in name only."
- Robert Greenleaf

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."
- John Le Caré

"No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain. "
- Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor and Howard Means

"To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind."
- Seneca

"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

"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

"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

"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
- Wilferd Peterson

"Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision."
- Anonymous

"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

"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

"The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
- Charles Handy

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."
- T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
- Jonathan Swift

"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

"Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow."
- Jon Madonna

"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These men moved the world, and so can we all."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"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

"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."
- John Sculley Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple Computer

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
- Warren Bennis

"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming."
- Jim Rohn

"Where there is no vision the people perish."
- Proverbs 29:18

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
- Adlai E. Stevenson

"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

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie

"If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things you don't have enough goals."
- Lou Holtz

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