Inspirational Quotes on Vision

“Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.”

“Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.”

“Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.”

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”

“I'm thankful that I came of age politically in the era of Ronald Reagan, in high school and in college. He is my inspiration. His vision of America and of the exceptional-ism of our country. I think about him every day. I think about what that Great Communicator has left our country and the rest of the world.”

“As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!”

“The air was cold but not bitterly so, and it seemed a bit rough at the back of his throat. He gazed about him, and the very intensity of his desire to take in the new world at a glance defeated itself. He saw nothing but colours - colours that refused to form themselves into things. Moreover, he knew nothing yet well enough to see it: you cannot see things till you know roughly what they are. His first impression was of a bright, pale world - a watercolour world out of a child's paint-box, a moment later he recognised the flat belt of light blue as a sheet of water, or of something like water, which came nearly to his feet. They were on the shore of a lake or river.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“Uno de los milagros del amor es tener una visión un poco parecida a la de Dios. El amor de Dios y su sabiduría no se diferencian entre sí ni de Él mismo. Casi podríamos decir que ve porque ama, y por lo tanto que ama, a pesar de que ve.”

“When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute to this result, large constructive imagination and a marvelously acute power of abstract reasoning. With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world, which is the world of all time and space and existence, and sees it as a whole; God and souls are in it the great realities, and the transactions between them the great business in which all its movement is concerned.”

“It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.”

“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”