75 Inspirational Quotes on Vision

Vision is an idea or mental image of something. Here is a list of inspirational quotes on vision from some of the world’s most successful people that’ll help you stay motivated.

Inspirational Quotes on Vision

1. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller

2. “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift

3. “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs

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

5. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

6. “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

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7. “In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

8. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver

9. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.” – John C. Maxwell

10. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” – Gail Devers

11. “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker

12. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

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13. “Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.” – John C. Maxwell

14. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy

15. “We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.” – Khalil Gibran

16. “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” – Brian Tracy

17. “People only see what they are prepared to see.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. “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.” – Woodrow Wilson

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19. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie

20. “The best vision is insight.” – Malcolm Forbes

21. “Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” – Roy T. Bennett

22. “Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

23. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

24. “The world of great opportunity is available now, as it has always been, only for those with great vision.” – Andrew Carnegie

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25. “If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for.” – Les Brown

26. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis

27. “Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.” – Roy T. Bennett

28. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

29. “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” – Bob Marley

30. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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31. “It is today that we create the world of the future.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

32. “To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.” – Oscar Wilde

33. “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” – Denis Waitley

34. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

35. “Vision without execution is delusion.” – Thomas A. Edison

36. “Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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37. “Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We’ve never wavered from that vision.” – Bill Gates

38. “Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.” – John C. Maxwell

39. “Without a vision the people perish.” – Ronald Reagan

40. “We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere – your ideal of what you long to attain – the ideal of health, efficiency, success.” – Orison Swett Marden

41. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

42. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare

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43. “If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

44. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis

45. “Wherever you find a prosperous business, you will come upon some individual who has Creative Vision.” – Napoleon Hill

46. “The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” – Vance Havner

47. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin

48. “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker

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49. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” – Muhammad Ali

50. “It doesn’t matter how fast you can go, it doesn’t matter how much passion you have, and it doesn’t matter how much energy you put into something. If you don’t have a vision and clarity on the destination you want to reach, you’ll simply never get there.” – Dean Graziosi

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

52. “When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.” – Charles R. Swindoll

53. “If you can’t find any joy in life, perhaps you have a vision problem.” – Tim Fargo

54. “We need men who can dream of things that never were.” – John F. Kennedy

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55. “Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.” – Roy T. Bennett

56. “Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.” – Robert H. Goddard

57. “Vision is seeing a future state with the mind’s eye. Vision is applied imagination.” – Stephen Covey

58. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

59. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

60. “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese proverb

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61. “To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.” – Seneca

62. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.” – Andrew Carnegie

63. “Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.” – Rumi

64. “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.” – Ayn Rand

65. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

66. “If you don’t have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you’re going, and you’re going to work very hard to go nowhere.” – J. J. Watt

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67. “I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision.” – Howard Schultz

68. “Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.” – Robert Collier

69. “Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.” – Shiv Khera

70. “Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.” – Roy T. Bennett

71. “One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.” – Jack Canfield

72. “Live your vision and demand your success.” – Steve Maraboli

73. “Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.” – Stephen Covey

74. “We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

75. “The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” – Benjamin Franklin

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