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"The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good."
-- Oprah Winfrey

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives."
-- Stedman Graham

"Seeing within changes one's outer vision."
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"What is required is sight and insight -- then you might add one more: excite."
-- Robert Frost

"Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs."
-- Vaclav Havel, writer and first President of the Czech Republic

"Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others."
-- Dr. Michael Norwood, The Vision of the Wealthy Soul

"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
-- Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic

"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength...it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown."
-- Li Ka Shing (1928-) international businessman and philanthropist, considered to be Asia's wealthiest man

"The power of vision is incredible! Research indicates that children with 'future-focused role images' perform far better scholastically and are significantly more competent in handling the challenges of life. Teams and organizations with a strong sense of mission significantly outperform those without the strength of vision… Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of human action. It’s the ability to see beyond our present reality, to create, to invent what does not yet exist, to become what we not yet are. It gives us capacity to live out of our imagination instead of our memory."
-- Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill: First Things First

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
--Japanese Proverb

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

"Vision takes the form of enthusiasm, commitment, pride, and the willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. You can 'feel' the energy that emanates from vision almost from the moment you meet somebody who possesses it. This person's focus on his or her vision mobilizes not just physical resources but emotional and spiritual assets as well. Vision brings to life values, commitment, and aspirations."
-- Greg Anderson: Living Life on Purpose: A Guide to Creating a Life Of Success and Significance

"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, As A Man Thinketh

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."Henri Bergson

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
-- Margaret Fairless Barber (1869-1901) author

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
--Helen Keller

"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
-- Robert Burton

"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible."
-- Frank Gaines

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-- Anais Nin

"The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it."
-- Unknown

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."
-- Napoleon Hill

Visionaries are NOT special people. The gift of true vision requires only a willingness to open your eyes to first, find the horizon. Once fixated on the horizon comes the ability to see beyond, where the true magic of life exists.
-- ©Rick Beneteau

"Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears."
-- Stedman Graham (1951-), American educator, author, businessman and speaker

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."
--Walt Disney

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."
-- Helen Keller