Quotes on Great Vision

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

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.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.