Motivational Quotes

Vision

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.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Vision

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Day, Sir Robin

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

Harriman, Edward H.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Carlyle, Thomas

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

One eye sees, the other feels.

Klee, Paul

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Kaufman, Herbert

Marden, Orison Swett

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best vision is insight.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Barker, Joel A.

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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Terkel, Studs

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Brown, Les

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Smiles, Samuel

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Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

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I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Schwab, Charles M.

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What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Dodge, Joseph M.

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Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Allen, Charles L.

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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

Murrow, Edward R.

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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Berger, John

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Blake, William

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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Raphael, Frederic

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I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keller, Helen

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We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bradley, Omar Nelson

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.

Frost, David

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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Nightingale, Earl

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Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Picasso, Pablo

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Brokaw, Tom

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Mulford, Prentice

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Kaplan, Justin

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The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Carleton, Emma

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Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

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You have to think big to be big.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Schwab, Charles M.