Below are a few inspirational quotes about vision and the importance of sticking to your vision. No matter how crazy, weird, unique or out there it might be – you have it for a reason so trust it. I find these quotes help me to stay true to my vision and may they do the same for you.
- “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
- “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
- “Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision.” — Anonymous
- “If one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams, and endeavors to live the life which she has imagined, she will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Don’t underestimate the power of a vision. McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc, pictured his empire long before it existed, and he saw how to get there. He invented the company motto — ‘Quality, service, cleanliness and value’ — and kept repeating it to employees for the rest of his life.” — Kenneth Labich
- “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
- One of my favorite quotes about vision. “Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.” — Jonathan Swift
- “Create your future from your future, not your past.” — Werner Erhard
- “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “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
- “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” — Mark Twain
- “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” — Mark Twain
- “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
- “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” — Mark Twain
